As England’s players lined up before the start of the second Test at Edgbaston, in the black t-shirts that have come to symbolise cricket’s stance against discrimination, Mark Wood wore one bearing the slogan: “We Stand Against Ageism.”
It is a fine sentiment and one which had living proof nearby in the shape of James Anderson, now England’s most capped Test cricketer and a grandee of the modern game.
Anderson will be 39 next month and has defied the ravages of time and form as well as the fickleness of selectors to remain England’s premier pace bowler. His Test debut, against Zimbabwe at L...