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| Jimmy Anderson shares England’s one-day heat against Sri Lanka | Jimmy Anderson shares England’s one-day heat against Sri Lanka |
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| Jimmy Anderson admits the heat will be on him and England even in a late Mancunian spring when they aim to bounce back from Sunday’s Durham debacle in the third match of the one-day series against Sri Lanka on Wednesday . | Jimmy Anderson admits the heat will be on him and England even in a late Mancunian spring when they aim to bounce back from Sunday’s Durham debacle in the third match of the one-day series against Sri Lanka on Wednesday . |
| In addition to the extra pressure he feels to perform on his home county ground, where he had chastening first-innings figures of 33-6-116-0 in the first innings of last summer’s Ashes Test, Anderson concedes there will be no honeymoon period for Peter Moores in his second stint as coach, or for his new partnership with Alastair Cook. The captain returned to the nets at Old Trafford on Tuesday after recovering from his groin strain and is expected to retake the reins on the twin provisos of there being no adverse reaction and of the grimmest weather forecasts proving inaccurate. | |
| Anderson argues it is incumbent on him and the other senior players to lighten the load on Cook. “We’ve got a World Cup in eight months, so that in itself means the honeymoon period is going to be very short,” he said, specifically in reference to one-day cricket. “If we want to win the World Cup, we’re going to have to start playing well quickly. | Anderson argues it is incumbent on him and the other senior players to lighten the load on Cook. “We’ve got a World Cup in eight months, so that in itself means the honeymoon period is going to be very short,” he said, specifically in reference to one-day cricket. “If we want to win the World Cup, we’re going to have to start playing well quickly. |
| “I think the senior players have got a huge role to play. It can’t always be the captain’s job to discipline people or think of tactics or make bowling changes. That’s where the senior players come in. When we’ve done well in the past it is when we’ve had five or six guys who can stand up in the dressing room and give feedback. | “I think the senior players have got a huge role to play. It can’t always be the captain’s job to discipline people or think of tactics or make bowling changes. That’s where the senior players come in. When we’ve done well in the past it is when we’ve had five or six guys who can stand up in the dressing room and give feedback. |
| “I don’t think over the winter that senior players helped as much as they could with taking pressure off Cooky. When you’re in Australia and you get on to a bit of a down slope, you can get a little bit insular I guess, start worrying about your own game perhaps. It’s a real chance for us now, we’ve got a new coach and some new faces around, we can really start to rebuild this team.” | |
| There was further frustration for two of those senior players on Tuesday, with Matt Prior again unable to take the field for Sussex against Middlesex because of a second consecutive washout and Stuart Broad remaining wicketless after 16 overs of his comeback match following knee problems for Nottinghamshire against Durham at Trent Bridge. | |
| Cook’s return at Old Trafford would presumably mean demotion for Michael Carberry after his failure in Durham and rule out any chance of Alex Hales coming into the side. England have left open the option of amending their squad for the remaining two matches of the series at Lord’s and Edgbaston and it will be fascinating to see if Carberry, Hales or both are retained. | |
| Sri Lanka hinted at making at least one change from the team that squared the series in the north-east, with their captain Angelo Mathews describing the Manchester pitch as “sub-continental”. That could mean a call-up for Ajantha Mendis or Rangana Herath, the chunky veteran left-arm spinner who had not been due to arrive until the Test series but has flown in earlier than planned as a replacement for the injured seamer Suranga Lakmal. | |
| Anderson was also asked about a possible Lancashire comeback for his former England team-mate Andrew Flintoff, who gave another public display of his intentions by batting and bowling during the warm-up before the third day of the Roses match at Headingley. “I would be in favour if he is fit and bowling well, of course,” he said. “With someone who has been out of the game for so long the issue would be fitness and getting up to match intensity. From a playing point of view, we’ll see.” | Anderson was also asked about a possible Lancashire comeback for his former England team-mate Andrew Flintoff, who gave another public display of his intentions by batting and bowling during the warm-up before the third day of the Roses match at Headingley. “I would be in favour if he is fit and bowling well, of course,” he said. “With someone who has been out of the game for so long the issue would be fitness and getting up to match intensity. From a playing point of view, we’ll see.” |
| Lancashire also remain coy, with their director of cricket, Mike Watkinson, refusing to break his public silence on a possible Flintoff comeback other than describing it as an “ongoing situation”. | |
| England (probable team) AN Cook (capt), IR Bell, JE Root, GS Ballance, EJG Morgan, JC Buttler (wkt), RS Bopara, CJ Jordan, JC Tredwell, HF Gurney, JM Anderson. | |
| Sri Lanka (probable team) AD Mathews (capt), TM Dilshan, HDRL Thirimanne, KC Sangakkara (wkt), DPMD Jayawardene, LD Chandimal, SMA Priyanjan, KMDN Kulasekara, SMSM Senanayake, SL Malinga, BAW Mendis. |