Anderson crowned king of exclusive club

England fast-bowler Jimmy Anderson joined an exclusive list when he registered his second golden duck in the Visakhapatnam Test against India and a couple of fellow members of the king pair club have welcomed him with open arms.

Adam Gilchrist and Virender Sehwag took to social media to ‘congratulate’ England’s all-time leading wicket-taker on joining them in a group that now has 19 members.

Anderson, England’s resident No.11 in Test cricket, followed up his first-innings golden duck – where he was trapped lbw by Ravi Ashwin – with another first-baller, again lbw to an Indian off-spinner, this time to debutant Jayant Yadav.

Gilchrist became the first Australian to register a king pair when he, too, was adjudged lbw in both innings of a Test in India.

After peeling off 122 in the first Test of the three-match series against Sourav Ganguly’s men, the legendary gloveman was trapped in front by the Harbhajan Singh in the first innings, becoming one of the Turbanator’s 28 victims in that series.

Sachin Tendulkar then removed him in the same fashion with his part-time spin in the second dig.

Sehwag took particular delight in Anderson’s pain, doubled by India romping to a 246-run victory to take a 1-0 series lead, as the England paceman had played a leading role in Sehwag’s own king pair.

In the 2011 Edgbaston Test against England, the India opener edged behind to Stuart Broad in the first innings before Anderson sealed his fate when he nicked him off in the second innings.

The right-armer, who has 467 Test wickets to his name, also played a leading role in the most recent Australian to make a king pair.

His Ashes rival and fellow quick Ryan Harris notched dual first-ballers at the Adelaide Oval in 2011, with Anderson completing the double after Graeme Swann got Harris in the first-innings, as England ran away with an innings and 71-run win.

Anderson is now the only player to have helped administer a Test king pair (as he did with Sehwag and Harris) and fall victim to one.

Anderson became the first Englishman to record two golden globes in the same Test in over 110 years.

Ernest Hayes suffered the same fate in 1906 against South Africa, 14 years after his countryman William Atwell became the inaugural member of the king pair club in 1892.