Ben Stokes has told his England players to put on a show for the Headingley Test against New Zealand as Jimmy Anderson misses out
cricketing roadshow rolls into Headingley on Thursday, with sunshine forecast, ticket sales buoyant and England’s captain instructing his players “we’re in the entertainment business not the sporting business” with the series against New Zealand already won.
The warm glow the team would have been feeling as they practised on the outfield on Wednesday might have been as much due to the manner in which the second Test was won at Trent Bridge last week – amid aand in front of a celebratory packed house – as the unbroken sunshine. “What you saw on that day five was exactly what we want. Me and Jonny just decided that it was a time to put as much pressure back on them as we possibly could and that’s what we’re doing this week.
With Stokes having recovered from the mystery illness that kept him out of training on Tuesday – and, probably no less painful, away from a team barbecue at Bairstow’s house – the only expected change to the team that played in Nottingham will be a debut for Jamie Overton in place of Jimmy Anderson. The team doctors have yet to diagnose Anderson’s injury but Stokes described it as “a bit of a puffy ankle”. The hope is it will depuff in time for the Test against India at Edgbaston next week.
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