England's Anderson becomes the first pacer to enter 700 Test wicket club. Watch video here

During the India and England Test series, ageless wonder Jimmy Anderson became the first pace bowler in the history of Test cricket to take 700 wickets but not before hosts India ended their first innings on a commendable 477 on the third morning of the final game on Saturday. England's 'king of swing' is just short of eight wickets to surpass record of the legend Shane Warne who has 708 wickets to his name.

At the top is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan with 800 Test wickets. While he might be the third bowler to be a part of the exclusive club, veteran Anderson became the first pacer to reach the feat of achieving 700 wickets. The closer to reaching this milestone was his teammate Stuart Broad, who retired last year with 604 in the bag.

Anderson's 700th victim was Kuldeep Yadav as India took a huge first innings lead of 259 as they were all out within 20 minutes of the start of play.



Along with vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah (20), Kuldeep added 49 runs for the ninth wicket before off-spinner Shoaib Bashir (5/173 in 46.1 overs) wrapped up the Indian innings with his second five-wicket haul.

Earlier, centuries by skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill and half-centuries from Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan and debutant Devdutt Padikkal ensured a big first-innings lead for India.

Besides close to 200 Tests, Anderson has played 194 ODIs and 19 T20s. He is 13 short of completing 1000 wickets in international cricket.



(with agency inputs)