England pace bowler, James Anderson, currently playing the World Cup, had posed nude for UK's leading gay magazine, Attitude last year in a bid to shed cricket's image of being a game of crusty old fogeys.<br /><br />  <table style="width: 140px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="140" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/mar/jamesgayanderson.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">James Anderson on the cover of UK gay mag Attitude, last year</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>The pace bowler, who is straight and married, reports say, was convinced by his wife to do the photo shoot. <br /><br />James was quoted saying, "There's a perception that cricket is a game of lots of committees and old men of cricket being quite prim and proper, but I think the game is moving with the times. If there are any gay cricketers, they should feel confident enough to come out because I don't think there is any homophobia in cricket. I probably will get some stick for it, but I'm more than prepared for that. If they want to give me some stick, let them give me their best shot."

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England pace bowler, James Anderson, currently playing the World Cup, had posed nude for UK's leading gay magazine, Attitude last year in a bid to shed cricket's image of being a game of crusty old fogeys

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