Potts praises England's aggressive bowling

Matthew Potts praised England's aggressive bowling style after taking four wickets on his international debut, admitting that he had a "tear in the eye" ahead of the opening day at Lord's.

Potts took four wickets on his first international appearance, dismissing New Zealand captain Kane Williamson with the fifth ball of his opening over and then finished his first international bowling appearance on 4-13.

The Durham bowler was given a chance to shine early by newly-appointed captain Ben Stokes and for Potts, it was good to get his first over out of the way to relinquish some of the emotion of the day.

"Yeah it is a massive thing, a lot of my success is down to my family and it is testament to their hard work as well as mine so it was a great achievement and I am really over the moon with it," said Potts.

"Had a little bit of a tear in the eye early on this morning and I can imagine my mam and dad had a tear in theirs as well.

"Honestly, I think it was the best way it could have worked out rather than have the built-up nerves, watching us bat then not knowing how it was going to go.

"It is best to get it out the way, get the nerves out of the body really, really early.

"It was probably the best way it could have happened.

"The first ball was actually fine, I gathered my thoughts quite well, it was the second ball where I bowled the half-tracker which was the one where I was like 'I am not sure if I am in here'.

"Once that first bowl was down and in, there is no going back on that moment so it was just kind of into my work and away we went.

"I was just trying to run up and bowl it hard on a nice line with a little bit of wobble on the seam and it nipped away quite nicely.

"It was a very good catch and I didn't think it