Veteran England pacer James Anderson has described the feeling of getting the wicket of Indian captain Virat Kohli for a golden duck as an ‘unusual’ one. However, it happened during the first test and Anderson won the first battle between him and Kohli when he got Kohli to nick one behind the stumps on Day 2 of the Test as well.

Reflecting on that, he elaborated: “I feel like I’ve challenged Virat in that area before. He either played or missed or left it. He’s always been good enough to sort of get through and today it was just one of those days where he nicked it. Getting Kohli out that early was quite unusual.”

With Virat Kohli’s wicket, James Anderson equalled the record of Indian bowling great Anil Kumble’s record of 619 Test scalps as well. Only Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and Shane Warne (708) have more Test wickets than him as well. Meanwhile, before Kohli, Anderson also dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara also.

The veteran pacer again shared: “He’s such a big wicket. To bowl the ball exactly where I wanted it to and for him to nick it as well. It was just an outpouring of emotions to get the team back into the game. Getting their best player out is something that doesn’t happen all that often.”

“To be honest it’s not really something that we thought about too much, particularly to him. What we try to do as a group is trying to challenge that fourth stump area, the defence as much as possible. Obviously to get a couple of quick ones like that is really important, especially with Virat being such an influential player for them. Always good to get him early,” James Anderson concluded.

After restricting England within 183 in their first innings, India were 125 for 4 after a rain-affected Day 2 of the first Test. KL Rahul (57 not out) and Rishabh Pant (7 not out) will resume on Day 3 as well.