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. “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. “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 …
