As he prepares for the second Test in Pakistan, the England captain relishes being one of ‘two blokes leading the charge with exactly the same mindset’
Stokes says: “There’s no self-preservation in our roles: him keeping his job as England coach, me keeping my job as England captain. It’s all the bigger picture. So when you’ve got two blokes leading the charge with exactly the same mindset around that then it makes doing what we’re doing out on the field a lot easier.”Asked if other teams may now follow suit, Stokes says: “I feel I’ve been quite vocal about the bigger picture.
“But if they continue to play in the way in which they want to play, that’s absolutely fine as well. We’ll stick to our guns and that’s to go out there and try to make every single day of Test cricket entertaining and force results – not worry about too much else.” Another question was whether Stokes felt this way while operating as vice-captain to Joe Root. “Yes,” he says. “It wasn’t a case of as soon as I got the job [I thought] to do it this way. But whilst Joe was in charge it was Joe’s team.” Did he ever speak up? “I’ve always tried to get across ‘remember what we’re doing, walking out for England with three lions on our chest, have as much fun as we possibly can while we’re doing it, because in the click of a finger it could all be gone’.
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