The making of Jimmy Anderson: ‘Like a golden nugget falling into your lap’

A phone call from an impressed parent helped ignite the storied career of England’s greatest ever fast bowlerIt all started with a phone call. “It was highly unusual for Val to ring me. In fact I don’t think she ever did before or since, that wasn’t her style at all,” says John Stanworth, recalling how Valerie Brown, the wife of the then captain of Burnley CC, Peter Brown, telephoned one Sunday evening in the late-90s.It would be a tipoff worth interrupting Antiques