'I thought he did a great job' - Woakes on Pope's captaincy debut - video Dailymotion

Chris Woakes congratulates Ollie Pope on his first day as England captain in the absence of Ben Stokes.

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00:00How do you think Odi did his first day in the job?

00:03Yeah, I thought he was good. I just said downstairs on TV, I think he probably found himself having

00:08to switch on a little bit more than he would normally. As captain, you have to be on the

00:13ball all the time, you're constantly thinking about fields, bowling changes and things like

00:20that and how to get wickets and talking and communicating with your bowlers, which is

00:24something he doesn't have to do usually. I thought he did a great job, certainly with

00:29us as bowlers, I think he communicated with us well, talking about options, field settings.

00:33I thought for a first day on the job, obviously for an inexperienced captain, I thought he

00:40did a great job, yeah.

00:41Did it feel like somebody different was in charge or was he sticking pretty much to Ben's

00:45blueprint?

00:46Obviously, it feels different, not with having Ben out there. Ben is Ben and has done it

00:55for a couple of years now and has got his own way. I think there's certainly traits

01:01of what... Oli's been VC to Ben for a little while now, so he's obviously picked up on

01:07how Ben goes about it and has probably brought a little bit of that into him. But he's also

01:12himself, which is, I think, really important for him moving forward. I thought he did a

01:18great job, as I said.