Aussie plan to frustrate England's Anderson

England's leading wicket-taker has been warned he will again be targeted by run-hungry Australian batsmen this summer, once the shine wears off the new Kookaburra ball.

Jimmy Anderson will bowl in his seventh Ashes series this summer – if selected – and, along with opening batsman Alastair Cook, is the only member of the whitewashed 2006-07 England side still playing.

And while Anderson has an exemplary record with 470 Test wickets in a 123-Test career spanning 14 years – including four Ashes series wins – Australia has rarely been a happy hunting ground.

Former Test fast bowler Peter Siddle said it was a common tactic for Australia batters to play on his frustrations and target him once the new ball lost its shine.

"It's always been the case with Anderson ... we've known in Australia, and it's always been a plan, that if it does stop swinging you can really get on top of him," Siddle told The Unplayable podcast.

"He does get frustrated when the batsmen get on top of him.

"It's been our plan that when he's in a good spell, be defensive play it straight, bide your time. Because once that swing has died off you can have a good crack at him and make the most of it. "

The tactic did not work to Australia's favour in the 2010-11 series Down Under. That England victory was Anderson's most productive Ashes series, with 24 wickets at an average of 26.04 across the five Tests.

Conversely, in the 2013-14 series, in which the bowler was on the wrong end of a 5-0 whitewash for the second time in his career, Anderson collected 14 wickets at 43.92.

And on his first Ashes tour in 2006-07, when he played three Tests, he took five wickets at 82.60 against a legendary Australia outfit.

Anderson was famously targeted by George Bailey during the 2013-14 Ashes when the Tasmanian took a record-equalling 28 runs off the one over in Perth.

The bowler himself, who turns 35 at the end of July, has declared he wants to play in the 2019 Ashes and that he has "unfinished business" in Australia this upcoming summer.

Anderson , who turns 35 at the end of July, says he doesn’t feel "too old" and that he has a point to prove against South Africa and then the West Indies given his age.

"The ambition to play one more Ashes in England is still strong," Anderson wrote in The Telegraph UK. "It is two years away and I know a lot can happen in that time.

"A player can get a career-ending injury at any moment or a lack of form can cost them their place so I know I have to take it step by step, summer by summer.

"I want to go to Australia this (English) winter," he added. "It is an amazing tour.

"There is nothing quite like an Ashes trip Down Under. I have experienced both winning and losing in Australia and I feel like I have unfinished business."

Anderson has been on the winning side of four of his six Ashes campaigns but has lost more matches than he has won.

Of the 26 Ashes Tests he’s played, the right-armer has won 10, lost 11 and five have been drawn.

While he’s never lost an Ashes series on English soil, Anderson is keen to win again Down Under. Easier said than done, according to Siddle.

"It has been shown with his record in Australia that he's a player you can get on top of, but he has had his moments where he's been all over us," Siddle said.

"You just don't know what type of Jimmy Anderson you're going to get.

"Sometimes it can be dependent on mother nature and what's overhead. Hopefully it's a sunny summer and not much swing which means Jimmy Anderson will be not quite as effective."

2017-18 International Fixtures:

Men's Ashes Series

First Test Gabba, November 23-27. Buy tickets

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T20 trans-Tasman Tri-Series

First T20I Australia v NZ, SCG, February 3. Buy tickets

Second T20I – Australia v England, Blundstone Arena, February 7. Buy tickets

Third T20I – Australia v England, MCG, February 10. Buy tickets

Fourth T20I – NZ v England, Wellington, February 14

Fifth T20I – NZ v Australia, Eden Park, February 16

Sixth T20I – NZ v England, Seddon Park, February 18

Final – TBC, Eden Park, February 21