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At 38 years and six days old, Jimmy Anderson became the oldest player to bowl the first ball of a Test in England since 's Richard Hadlee (39 years and two days) at Edgbaston in July 1990.<br>The Lancashire veteran is older than  bowlers Shaheen Afridi (20y & 121d) and Naseem Shah (17y & 172d) combined.<br>Shah became the second youngest player to feature in a Test at Old Trafford — after  batting great Sachin Tendulkar (17y & 107d) in August 1990.<br>         Jimmy Anderson (right) is the oldest to bowl the first Test ball in England since Richard Hadlee<br>     RELATED ARTICLES                <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>The magnificent sevenBabar Azam became the seventh Pakistan player to score a fifty in five consecutive Test innings.<br>He follows Zaheer Abbas (six, 1982-83), Mohammad Yousuf (six, 2006), Misbah-ul-Haq (six, 2010-11), Saeed Anwar (1995-96), Inzamam-ul-Haq (2005) and  [https://www.themoviewatchers.com/forums/users/joser33158/ https://www.themoviewatchers.com/forums/users/joser33158/] Sarfaraz Ahmed (2014). <br> <br> Babar is the only batsman with an average of more than 100 in the ICC World Test Championship — he averages 114.00 in the competition. Ben Stokes is the best of the England players with 59.05. <br>         Babar Azam became seventh Pakistan player to score a fifty in five consecutive Test innings<br>  This is just the fourth time, and the first since 1906, that England have played three Tests in a row at the same ground. <br>The previous occasions were: v Australia at Melbourne (1877-79), v Australia at Sydney (1887-88) and v South Africa at Johannesburg (1906).<br>  Pakistan have failed to post an opening stand of more than 50 in 34 straight innings away to England. <br>The last time they put on a half-century first-wicket stand was at the Oval in August 1996, when Aamer Sohail and Saeed Anwar racked up 106 in a winning cause.<br>   RELATED ARTICLES                <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share