Former England captains Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton react to Ben Stokes being named as Joe Root's successor and discuss how he can help bring success back to the Test team... 'England have winner in charge of Test team'
Sky Sports' Nasser Hussain:
"I think Stokes is the best option. He has been vice-captain for four or five years and has a huge aurora and personality about him.
"You look to some people around the world; Mike Brearley, Mahela Jayawardene, Ian Chappell of late have all said 'Ben Stokes is your man, make this man your captain'.
"Anyone who knows Ben knows that the only one thing he has ever been passionate about is England winning. He puts himself secondary to England winning. We have a winner in charge of our Test team and he will be doing everything to make sure we win every Test match we play.
"I've heard people say 'don't make Ben Stokes captain because he's your best player', but Joe Root was our best player and it had a positive impact on his batting.
"His batting went from strength to strength in the past couple of years - he has been the best Test batsman in the world while captaining a side that were imploding, so it didn't impact Joe as a batter.
"I keep hearing about Andrew Flintoff and Ian Botham and how they didn't take to captaincy, but Imran Khan and Kapil Dev and Shaun Pollock and Tony Greig and people like that - there have been people with high workloads who have done okay at captaincy.
"We have to judge Ben Stokes by Ben Stokes' standards and not by previous all-rounders who have captained the England cricket team.
"You're only judged on your results. His job is not about leadership skills and man-management, his job is to win games of cricket, it's as simple as that.
"England
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