Anderson is yet to take five wickets in an innings for England at Old Trafford, yet may get a possibility on day three, regardless of just a single South Africa wicket remaining. 

"I've just played six Tests at Old Trafford, this is my seventh, and you can't get five on each ground," he said. 

"It would be extraordinary, yet it will be extreme since Stuart Broad has the ball in his grasp. 

"Whoever gets it, I couldn't care less. We simply need to get a decent lead." 

Anderson likewise contributed with the bat, scoring just four runs however sharing a 50-run last wicket association with Jonny Bairstow. 

"On the back of Bairstow's innings, we had energy and you could feel that in the field when we turned out to bowl. Everybody was humming around," he said. 

'I was really irritated' 

Bairstow was rejected by a lbw choice on 99, coming up short with an audit to turn around the umpire's choice. 

"I was really irritated however in the meantime, in the event that somebody had let me know I'd get 99 subsequent to beginning the day on 33, at that point I would have taken it," said 27-year-old Bairstow. 

In spite of missing the mark concerning his fourth Test century, he took his 100th Test expulsion as wicketkeeper, getting South Africa number three Hashim Amla off the rocking the bowling alley of Toby Roland-Jones. 

"It's truly uncommon, two years back I would said there was no way of me taking 100 Test rejections," he said. 

"It's the diligent work that I've placed in finished the last couple of years." 

'Anything can happen' 

Amla in the mean time trusts South Africa are still in the match, while adulating Anderson's knocking down some pins. 

"The Test coordinate hasn't gone by any stretch of the imagination, anything can occur on Sunday," said the South Africa batsman. 

"You need to offer credit to the bowlers, that spell Jimmy had, he rocked the bowling alley truly well and asked the correct inquiries."