“I actually think Ben Stokes shoulders too much of the accountability for everything,” Healy said on the Willow Talk podcast “I have full praise for him. He stands there at the end of every Test match that they lose and says, ‘I’ll take accountability for this, this, [and] this. I did this wrong, I did that wrong’.
The Aussie legend picked out Brook, who has been largely invisible this Ashes. “How about taking a little bit of load off your captain? ‘Hi, my name’s Harry Brook, I played a shocking shot twice this Test match (Brisbane) and I put our team under the pump unnecessarily twice’. I’ve never heard him come out and say that,” she says.
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“There’s your captain standing there sticking up for him, saying, ‘I did this wrong, I did that wrong.’ For me, that screams trouble, and that’s creating a bubble environment that him and Brendon [McCullum] are trying to empower their players to be good enough to be out there and compete,” she added.
It has been the pattern of Bazball, that the team is built on the overarching persona of two men—Stokes and McCullum—whether by design or default. In their aura, the rest have dwarfed themselves. “If I was an English fan I’d be worried because that’s going to come crashing down at some point in time. If I was his teammate right now, and I genuinely cared about my captain, I’d do something about it because it’s not good enough,” she elaborated.
Healy was not alone in feeling that Stokes could snap. As did his ex-colleague James Anderson. “It looked like Ben had a lot on his plate on the field – he was the one coming up with the ideas,” Anderson said on the BBC’s Tailenders podcast. “I didn’t see many chats between Ben Stokes and Harry Brook, he’s vice captain. You’d expect that little bit more. “Ollie Pope was vice captain, I didn’t see him going up to Ben. I saw a little bit of Jofra chatting to Stokes but, generally, it was Ben on his own – that’s how it looked from the outside.” The third Test begins on December 21.
Alyssa Healy on England: ‘Ben Stokes shoulders too much responsibility’ | Cricket News
Australia cricketer Alyssa Healy feels that England captain Ben Stokes is overburdening himself in the Ashes. Days before England’s must-win third Test, she urges Stoke’s colleagues, especially deputy Harry Brooks, to shoulder more responsibility.
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“I actually think Ben Stokes shoulders too much of the accountability for everything,” Healy said on the Willow Talk podcast “I have full praise for him. He stands there at the end of every Test match that they lose and says, ‘I’ll take accountability for this, this, [and] this. I did this wrong, I did that wrong’.
The Aussie legend picked out Brook, who has been largely invisible this Ashes. “How about taking a little bit of load off your captain? ‘Hi, my name’s Harry Brook, I played a shocking shot twice this Test match (Brisbane) and I put our team under the pump unnecessarily twice’. I’ve never heard him come out and say that,” she says.
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“There’s your captain standing there sticking up for him, saying, ‘I did this wrong, I did that wrong.’ For me, that screams trouble, and that’s creating a bubble environment that him and Brendon [McCullum] are trying to empower their players to be good enough to be out there and compete,” she added.
It has been the pattern of Bazball, that the team is built on the overarching persona of two men—Stokes and McCullum—whether by design or default. In their aura, the rest have dwarfed themselves. “If I was an English fan I’d be worried because that’s going to come crashing down at some point in time. If I was his teammate right now, and I genuinely cared about my captain, I’d do something about it because it’s not good enough,” she elaborated.
Healy was not alone in feeling that Stokes could snap. As did his ex-colleague James Anderson. “It looked like Ben had a lot on his plate on the field – he was the one coming up with the ideas,” Anderson said on the BBC’s Tailenders podcast. “I didn’t see many chats between Ben Stokes and Harry Brook, he’s vice captain. You’d expect that little bit more. “Ollie Pope was vice captain, I didn’t see him going up to Ben. I saw a little bit of Jofra chatting to Stokes but, generally, it was Ben on his own – that’s how it looked from the outside.” The third Test begins on December 21.
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