From the age of 30, he took 436 Test wickets at 24

Even accounting for that series [2023Ashes], Anderson had grown old with astonishing grace  From the age of 30, he took 436 Test wickets at 24 - a total surpassed by only nine others in their entire career. From 35, he took 224 at 22, the bowling equivalent of Jack Hobbs's 100 first class hundreds after the age of 40. And since turning 40 himself, Anderson took 47 at 27.

L. Booth, 'Notes from the Editor', L. Booth (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2025), 18

You wouldn't fear injury. A dimension was lacking.

In the current ashes series [2013], there had been excellent fast-medium bowling, most strikingly from Jimmy Anderson and Ryan Harris, but where were the men who can bowl at 90 mph and over? were was the sheer pace and hostility of those earlier years. Eight or nine fast bowlers played, and against most of them, for almost all the time, you wouldn't fear injury. A dimension was lacking.

M. Brearley, On cricket (2018), 101