Tailenders podcast,<\/a> Anderson said Ben Stokes’ side were not the type to engage in sledging with the opposition.<\/p>\n“You look at their slip cordon for example – Jamie Smith, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett. They’re quiet kind of people, they don’t want to get into a verbal battle with the batter,” said Anderson.<\/p>\n
“Same as the bowlers even – Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, they’re generally quiet people. They’re not that type of character.<\/p>\n
“It’s only towards the back end of the Test when we saw Jofra going at Steve Smith and Stokesy loves that sort of battle, but from being in that dressing room I know that Brendon McCullum isn’t a massive fan of that side of the game.<\/p>\n
“He just wants England to go out there and focus on the cricket and perform your skill as best you can.”<\/p>\n
Anderson also said captain Stokes requires more support from his senior players when England are in the field.<\/p>\n
“It looked like Ben had a lot on his plate on the field, he was the one coming up with the ideas,” said Anderson, who has previously worked as a bowling consultant with the England side after retiring from Test cricket in 2024.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t see many chats between Ben Stokes and Harry Brook, he’s vice captain. You’d expect that little bit more,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Ollie Pope was vice-captain, I didn’t see him going up to Ben. <\/p>\n
“I saw a little bit of Jofra chatting to Stokes, but generally it was Ben on his own, that’s how it looked from the outside.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England seamer Sir James Anderson says England do not have the characters for verbal exchanges with their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-307777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}