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Stick To Cricket: Featuring special guest Sir Jimmy Anderson

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Michael Vaughan, Mark Butcher, David 'Bumble' Lloyd, Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell and Sir Jimmy Anderson sat around a table in the Stick to Cricket studio
Michael Vaughan, Mark Butcher, David 'Bumble' Lloyd, and Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell are joined by Sir Jimmy Anderson

Stick to Cricket returns as David "Bumble" Lloyd, Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell and Mark Butcher, stepping in for Alastair Cook, are joined by Jimmy Anderson. The team reflect on the Ashes, Pakistan's boycott and a look ahead to the T20 World Cup...

  • Sir Jimmy Anderson on being a coach

  • David Lloyd: "We're up shit's creek with the T20 World Cup" 

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Betfair and The Overlap proudly present "Stick to Cricket," a captivating show featuring renowned England cricket legends Michael Vaughan, Mark Butcher, David 'Bumble' Lloyd, and Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell.

The weekly show offers insights and discussions, with special guests joining the cricket icons to delve into the sport's hottest topics.

Ahead of the T20 World Cup in India ex-England legend Jimmy Anderson joins the panel to discuss the upcoming World Cup, fallout from The Ashes and life after retiring from the England national team.

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Who could be the next Jimmy Anderson?

Speaking on Stick to Cricket, Sir Jimmy Anderson shares his view on Tom Lawes: "I like Tom Lawes at Surrey. He's got good skills, decent pace and has been on a few Lions trips. Being at a strong county like that, he's not played a huge amount, but he played in The Hundred last year.

"We need someone who can swing it both ways. We have to be trying to grow people's skills. Tom Lawes could be the next Jimmy Anderson."

Michael Vaughan says leave Harry Brook alone

Vaghan shared his thoughts on the continuing Harry Brook controversy: "I can't have that Harry Brook keeps having to release a statement. And let's be honest, the statement is written by someone else. That's not his. Whatever they've done has now gone to the regulator and they've deemed whatever these three players got up to in New Zealand it's gone to the next stage now.

"I have a concern because whoever, higher than Harry, released that statement, lied in his first statement for him. We all realise that if you keep lying in our system, it's always going to come out. 

"I don't like how Harry Brook continuously has to have a statement. Just leave the kid alone. We haven't heard from Baz McCullum or Rob Key for weeks and weeks, but Harry Brook keeps releasing a statement. That can't be right."

Anderson: I would consider being a coach

Sir Jimmy shared his thoughts for the future: "I've just started doing my coaching badges this winter. It's something I'd definitely consider moving forward. I had a taste of it when a mentor in that England team, but I feel it wasn't the right time for me to go into that, and I want to learn more about the art of coaching as well. I can pass on knowledge and experiences of bowling, but I want to be able to tell people with conviction about technique. 

"With the course, there's some elements of putting things down on paper but a lot of it is coaching based and being in action so people will come up to Lancashire and watch me hands-on from both an individual point of view and in a group. 

"The skill of being a coach now is knowing your players, how you talk to them and get your message across. That'll be different for each player."

Brendon McCullum could tweak his approach

Anderson: "I think there's a decent amount of attention to detail from this England squad around the little things, the one percents. Having been in the nets that they do, it's full on. For those three or four hours, they're absolutely switched on. You see Joe Root batting for an hour and a half working on his game. You see Harry Brook and Joe Root working together, throwing at each other. The lads do put in the time and work really hard. I think it's just very easy to go 'oh, they're playing golf again..'

"One thing that Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes have tried to do is create a relaxed atmosphere, take the pressure from the outside away from them as much as possible so that they can enjoy themselves while they're doing their job. Sometimes that can come across like they're not bothered but that's definitely not the case. They do really, really care and work hard.

"I thought we should've beaten India in the summer so there were signs of this way of playing needing something extra added to it. Brendon won't change his approach, but he could tweak it and tweak the messaging. The players have to take a bit more responsibility and read the game situation and play it how they see it. We didn't do that well enough at all. 

"Bumble touched on the keeper coming up to stumps - it was like they were rabbits in headlights whereas actually you should be saying 'it's alright, I can cope with this, and I'll just adjust my game to what's happening.' 

"I think we can be smarter at times with both bat and ball."

David Lloyd on the T20 World Cup

David Lloyd: "Where are we with the T20 World Cup? We're up shit's creek, that's where we are."

Mark Butcher: "The issue comes from dispensations made from the ICC, whether it be in favour of India or against India and Pakistan. Historically, India and Pakistan don't play each other on a bi-lateral basis anymore and that's political more than anything else. 

"However, in ICC tournaments, they're always placed in the same group. Why? Because it's the most lucrative fixture in the world of cricket and some say in the world of sport. So, the ICC have to make sure that India and Pakistan are in the same group, and they are every single time. It's not a coincidence.

"Now Pakistan is in a situation whereby they're the younger brother or cousin of India and basically, Pakistan have to suck it up. So, when they had the Champions Trophy in Pakistan you could see it coming a mile off that India weren't going to play there.

"When this stuff happens, it affects every team in the tournament because the program has to change and they have to fly out and meet India in the place that they want to play. 

"Pakistan have basically played a blinder and said, 'we still want to be involved but we don't want to play India because of what you have done with Bangladesh.' 

"What will happen, I don't know."


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