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James Anderson said he would like to return to the Test team under new captain Ben Stokes after being controversially dropped from the squad. Anderson and Stuart Broad, England's all-time leading Test wicket-takers with 1,177 wickets between them, were left out of the 16-man squad for the three-Test tour of the West Indies in March, which the team lost 1-0.
England's fast bowler, James Anderson, said he would like to return to the test team under new captain Ben Stokes after being controversially dropped from the squad.
James Anderson celebrated the news his England exile was set to end by taking a trio of wickets as Lancashire bowled Hampshire out for 246 on day one of their LV= Insurance County Championship Division One clash.
Ben Stokes says he is “honoured” to be handed England’s Test captaincy and has already made it clear that fast bowling greats James Anderson and Stuart Broad are part of his plans.
Pakistan pacer Hasan Ali continued his rich vein of form in the ongoing County Championship as he picked up yet another five-wicket haul for Lancashire during their Division One game against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton on Thursday. On Day 1, Hasan picked up the wickets of Liam Dawson, Ben Brown, Keith Barker, Kyle Abbott, and compatriot Mohammad Abbas, finishing with figures of five for 15. He now leads the wicket-taking charts across both divisions of the County Championship.
Rob Key is optimistic about England’s chances of attracting a high-class field of coaching candidates and hopes to have a Test specialist in place for the first game of the summer.
Rob Key has told James Anderson and Stuart Broad they are available for England selection and says new Test captain Ben Stokes is keen for them to be recalled.
Former Sri Lanka great Mahela Jayawardena believes star all-rounder Ben Stokes will be a "brilliant" Test captain for England if he improves his performances in red-ball cricket. Stokes was announced as England's new Test skipper with the upcoming home series' against New Zealand and India in June. "I think he (Stokes) will be a brilliant captain. He has been around for a while and shown again and again that he is a brilliant competitor and he is a different beast altogether when he is on the field. England haven't seen an all-rounder captaining their Test team for a long time and I think he is the ideal candidate. Having his type of character (as captain) might create a culture which they have had with white-ball cricket recently, but now need to find that same kind of culture with red-ball cricket," Mahela Jayawardena said on The ICC Review.