Veteran England fast bowler James Anderson has credited England Test captain Ben Stokes for his career revival. The England fast bowler was dropped from the Test team at the end of Joe Root’s tenure when England were losing Test series one after another. Root took the bold call of dropping England’s greatest pacer that flared up the emotions of cricket fans.
The snub however did not last long as Ben Stokes brought both Anderson and Stuart Broad back into the team and England wreaked havoc in Test cricket with their new approach – Bazball, named after their new coach Brendon McCullum.
“It’s exciting to be in this team. Whoever we play it’s going to be fun, we’re going to give it a good crack and Australia in the summer could just be incredible,” Anderson told SkySports.
“I’ve always had him down as a lead-by-example guy. But he is just incredible, the emotional intelligence around the group, managing the players. I didn’t know he had this side to him,” Anderson further added.
The player admitted that he felt sour during the snub and was angered by how things had unfolded.
“There was definitely a moment when I thought that could be it [for my England career]. There was a bit of anger and disappointment [at being left out of the tour to the West Indies],” Anderson said.
