Ollie Pope is ready to embrace “one of the greatest honours in English cricket” when he captains the Test side for the first time this week, but insists he will not stray far from Ben Stokes’s winning formula.
Pope will lead his country out for the first time against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford on Wednesday and remain in charge throughout the three-match series, which Stokes is missing after tearing his hamstring while playing in the Hundred.
