BBC Online :
England’s all-time leading wicket taker James Anderson will be the team’s vice-captain for the Ashes series against Australia in the absence of Ben Stokes.
Stokes is awaiting the outcome of a police investigation into a fight outside a nightclub in September.
Anderson, 35, who has 506 Test wickets, is the preferred understudy to captain Joe Root ahead of fellow bowler Stuart Broad and ex-skipper Alastair Cook.
Meanwhile, pace bowler Jake Ball is to have a scan on an injured right ankle.
England’s all-time leading wicket taker James Anderson will be the team’s vice-captain for the Ashes series against Australia in the absence of Ben Stokes.
Stokes is awaiting the outcome of a police investigation into a fight outside a nightclub in September.
Anderson, 35, who has 506 Test wickets, is the preferred understudy to captain Joe Root ahead of fellow bowler Stuart Broad and ex-skipper Alastair Cook.
Meanwhile, pace bowler Jake Ball is to have a scan on an injured right ankle.
