England pace bowler James Anderson has shared his views on the short-ball barrage which he had faced from Jasprit Bumrah in the second Test against India at Lord’s. However, Anderson said that it was probably the first time in his career when he felt the bowler was not trying to dismiss him as well.

Notably, he came to bat on Day 3 of the Lord’s Test where Bumrah’s bouncers troubled him a lot which led to verbal spats between the players of both teams for the rest of the Test which India later won by 151 runs.

“I got caught off guard a little bit because all the batters coming in were saying how slow the pitch was. Banged in short; it was really slow. When I came out to bat, Joe said Bumrah was not bowling as quick as he normally does. And then, the first ball was 90 miles an hour and on the money, wasn’t it? And it felt like, I haven’t felt like this ever in my career. I felt he wasn’t trying to get me out,” James Anderson said on the Tailenders podcast.

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He continued: “I felt he wasn’t trying to get me out. He bowled an over, maybe 10, 11, 12 balls. He was bowling no-ball after no-ball, bowling short. I think he bowled two on the stumps which I managed to dig out. So for me, it was just about trying to survive that and get Joe back on strike.”

England were under pressure after they failed to restrict Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami on Day 5 of the Lord’s Test. The duo added a match-winning partnership for India. However, both teams will play the third Test at Headingley, Leeds, which starts on Wednesday.

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“Potentially the emotion can get the better of you at times. Bu, I thought the way we bowled in the second innings was pretty much the opposite. We took the emotion out of it. We just focused on the process of bowling them out, keeping the runs down,” James Anderson concluded.