“I don’t want to think about the day when we don’t have them any more, walking out, representing England, they’re going to be big shoes to fill,” Ben Stokes said of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad, midway through last summer’s Ashes.
Ten months later, with Broad already retired and Anderson now on his way, Stokes is very much thinking about that day. It is likely to come, at the latest, during October’s tour of Pakistan.
