{"id":542810,"date":"2026-04-21T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:35:08","slug":"james-anderson-lancashire-unsure-if-captain-will-play-at-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542810\/","title":{"rendered":"James Anderson: Lancashire unsure if captain will play at Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson opened the season with a five-wicket haul at Northamptonshire and then  produced a match-winning spell of 4-18 as Lancashire successfully defended a target of 138 at home to Derbyshire last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Gloucestershire, he broke the game open in the third innings on Sunday, with three wickets in four balls as the hosts slipped from 294-5 to 297-8 to ensure Lancashire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c0krm3mde15o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could successfully chase down 202<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those results have taken the Red Rose to the top, above Durham, whom they face at the Riverside in the next round of games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a week off after this fixture, Croft and his captain will have to weigh up the merits of whether to push Anderson into a fourth successive game.       <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The performance he&#8217;s not just put in on Sunday, but in the whole season so far, a 21-year-old would be feeling it,&#8221; said Croft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully he can be fit, but we&#8217;ll just have to assess in the next few days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two players definitely not heading to Durham will be opener Luke Wells, who dislocated his shoulder, and fast bowler Ajeet Singh Dale, who picked up a hamstring injury, both during the game at Bristol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson opened the season with a five-wicket haul at Northamptonshire and then produced a match-winning spell of 4-18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}