After T20 World Cup winning captain Jos Buttler said Ben Stokes is "in the conversation" to be considered England's greatest ever player after playing another match-winning innings in the final, former skipper Nasser Hussain has weighed in.
Hussain was quick to note that he did not want to pass judgement on cricketers he never got to see, naming Sir Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond and Sydney Barnes as three "great players" whose careers began before the Second World War that "would have been great at any time".
And of those players he has seen, Hussain narrowed it down to a top three with Stokes and fellow all-rounder Sir Ian Botham just losing out to James Anderson, who has taken more Test wickets than any other seamer in history with 667 and is remarkably still leading England's attack at 40.
