England’s new head coach Chris Silverwood says Eoin Morgan and James Anderson have a lot of cricket left in them and they have the right to decide when they want to retire from the international cricket. Although James Anderson missed most of the recent Ashes series against Australia because of his calf injury. However, former Essex coach Silverwood admitted that Anderson and Stuart Broad are the automatic selections for their upcoming series.

“If they’re both fit, it’s difficult to look past them, isn’t it? It’s a great headache to have. When you look at the amount of wickets they’ve got between them it’s phenomenal,” Silverwood said. “Jimmy’s great. He takes wickets, he’s got a lot of knowledge in there that he can share with the players coming in.”

“I think it will be up to him to let us know, and I think he will, when he’s had enough, but who wouldn’t want a world-class bowler like him in the line-up? He is phenomenal. He gets wickets all round the world. So yes I want him around as long as I can, but equally we’ve got to be realistic and say ‘right we’ve got to do some future planning here’,” he said.

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However, Eoin Morgan’s future as limited-overs captain is not certain beyond next year’s T20 World Cup.

“The way he leads that one-day side and T20 side, and the influence he’s got with the players, is phenomenal,” Chris Silverwood said. “He’s so respected and the ideas he has, moving them forward. My job is to give him as much support as I can, to help him get where he wants to get to with them. He’s earned the right to tell us when he’s had enough but certainly we’ve got to have one eye on transitioning that period.”