England pacer James Anderson has ourightly rejected all the rumours regarding his retirement. Anderson claimed that he and his bowling partner Stuart Broad have no plans of retirement following the Ashes Test series.
Discussing his feeling England’s all-time leading wicket taker wrote in The Telegraph, “Unfortunately, I have been on a few tours that have not ended well in Australia.
"There is always an air of uncertainty when you lose convincingly so who knows what the future will hold.
“It is natural you start thinking about what happens next but the message from the chats I’ve had with the captain and senior players around me is to keep going.”
“No intention of finishing”
There were talks among the critics that time has come for the 39-year-old to retire from the game. But Anderson feels that despite the challenging times he feels he is “in a really good place” and has “no intention of finishing.”
“Personally, even in these challenging times, I feel in a really good place with my bowling, and have done for a while.
“I will have to wait and see but I have no intention of finishing,” Anderson added.
England have already lost the ongoing five-match Ashes Test series to Australia after losing the first three Tests. The performance has caused remarkable outrage in English media with former players such as Kevin Pietersen calling for massive changes to arrest the slide.
Call for systemic changes?
Anderson's views were similar to that of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director Ashley Giles, who has called for systematic changes in English cricket, but feels that mass sacking is not the solution for the team's recent struggles.
“Unless we look at more systemic change, a collective responsibility, and collective solutions, we can't make whatever changes we want.
"You can change me, we can change the head coach and change the captain, but we're only setting up future leaders for failure. That's all we do. It's only pushing it down the road,” Giles said.
English team led by Joe Root, lost the Boxing Day Test by an innings and 14 runs after the Aussies had won the first Test by nine wickets in Brisbane and then registered a comfortable 275-run victory in the next match in Adelaide.
