article_snippet.sent: ‘My focus is to support Alastair Cook as captain and work with the 16 players we have here to try to make sure we play the sort of cricket people want to watch and help we win.
article_snippet.sent: This is about focusing on an England team.
article_snippet.sent: us’ve got 16 guys going to West Indies who are desperate to start turning round English cricket from what’s happened over the last three months.
article_snippet.sent: ‘us need to get back to winning ways and it’s about a brand of cricket and trying to win this series.
article_snippet.sent: A lot has gone on since that last win against India at the Oval when we had three outstanding Test matches to come back from one down in that series.
article_snippet.sent: and it’s up to the players and the leadership to try and do that because as I say, in the last three Tests we played
article_snippet.sent: we played some good cricket.
article_snippet.sent: There’s been a lot of noise around English cricket and a lot of emotion which is understandable
article_snippet.sent: but I think now we’ve got 16 players who are going to the West Indies under Alastair and we’ve got to go and try to play some really good cricket.
article_snippet.sent: and it’s about English cricket.
article_snippet.sent: We’ve got a very committed bunch of players and support staff who desperately want to win for England.
article_snippet.sent: So that’s got to be the focus, on playing the right sort of cricket because that’s what the fans want.