New responsibilities as Ben Stokes' No.2 prove Ollie Pope's stock has never been higher

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Ollie Pope attends a net session with England [Getty Images]

NICK FRIEND: To expect Pope to step in oven-ready would be wildly unrealistic, particularly when there can hardly have been an England captain more likely to at some stage need a break than Stokes. But Stokes was raw in experience too

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