ANDERSON'S THE KING OF SWING

Woakes: True-great Jimmy has plenty more left in tank and could go past 700 wickets

- MIKE WALTERS

JIMMY ANDERSON should be carried round Old Trafford on a throne next week - but England team-mate Chris Woakes is not convinced it will be the king's Test farewell.

Win or lose, selected or not, after 688 Test wickets Anderson deserves all the adulation his Lancashire flock can shower on him at the fourth Ashes Test starting on Wednesday.

He will turn 41 during the match and Woakes - who delivered the winning hit in the Headingley thriller last weekend - suspects the Burnley Boomerang might play on long enough to join Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne as the only bowlers to top 700 wickets.

He said: "We are lucky to have had Jimmy for so long and who knows how much longer we'll be able to call on him?