{"id":946563,"date":"2026-10-30T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946563\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:20:24","slug":"jimmy-anderson-reveals-sadness-and-shock-at-lancashire-exit-jimmy-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946563\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Anderson reveals \u2018sadness and shock\u2019 at Lancashire exit | Jimmy Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Anderson has revealed the \u201csadness and shock\u201d he felt at his surprise Lancashire dismissal<\/a> while he weighs up whether his future involves playing cricket or \u201csomething different\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking for the first time since being told he will not have his county contract renewed, the England great told the BBC\u2019s Tailenders podcast<\/a> that the decision even made him question whether there is \u201csomething fundamentally wrong with me as a person\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old, his country\u2019s leading wicket-taker, had played for Lancashire<\/a> for 26 years since making his debut at the turn of the century and was let go despite taking 50 wickets, while captaining the side, at an average of 17 amid their struggles in Division Two of the County Championship this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went in for what I thought was a conversation about how the team moves forward,\u201d Anderson said on the podcast. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a great year for the team. Being captain I thought it was chat about that. A couple of minutes in I realised it wasn\u2019t a conversation. I was being told they thought the best way for the team to move forward was without me. I was quite shocked. It was quite brief.\u201d<\/p>\n

England also chose to drop Anderson in similar circumstances in 2024 as they sought to build a fresh attack for the 2025-26 Ashes in Australia. \u201cAll of the way through the season myself and the head coach were like: \u2018Is it something we are doing? Could we be doing more to help the team?\u2019\u201d Anderson added. \u201cI finished the season thinking: \u2018Was it something I did? Was I doing something wrong?\u2019 \u2013 and then I get this news \u2013 now I am thinking that even more. I\u2019m thinking: \u2018This is happening again \u2013 is there something fundamentally wrong with me as a person?\u2019 Your head just races.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to see my career out with Lancs. I don\u2019t know if my career is done, we will have to wait and see, but it would be nice at some point if someone would let me retire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seamer, meanwhile, remains optimistic about a future within or outside the sport. He said: \u201cI\u2019m starting to get excited about the future, whether it\u2019s something different or playing cricket again. It\u2019s exciting. There are exciting challenges ahead. I have to attack it like that and not dwell too much on how or why it finished at Lancs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sad the way it ended with the club I supported as a kid but now I have thought about it I am quite excited for the future. I am always going to support Lancashire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Anderson has revealed the \u201csadness and shock\u201d he felt at his surprise Lancashire dismissal while he weighs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-946563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}