Ollie Pope mentioned he respects England’s resolution to switch him with Harry Brook as vice-captain for the Ashes collection.

Pope has been deputy for many of Ben Stokes’ three years as Check skipper, stepping as much as lead on 5 events – together with England’s final Check towards India in July.

However the Surrey batter was demoted when the squad for the tour of Australia was named in September.

Director of cricket Rob Key defined the transfer by saying Brook, who turned England’s limited-overs captain in the summertime, is a “higher chief”.

Pope mentioned: “In the event that they assume that is the suitable factor for the crew going ahead, and clearly Brooky captaining the one-day stuff and the T20 stuff as effectively, that is completely advantageous by me and I respect the choice they’ve made.”

The 27-year-old was talking after making scores of 100 and 90 towards England Lions in England’s solely Ashes warm-up match in Perth.

It was Pope’s first time within the center since enjoying within the County Championship two months in the past.

He had a combined summer season for England, scoring a whole lot in his first two innings – towards Zimbabwe and India – then passing 50 solely as soon as in his subsequent eight.

Pope mentioned he has “labored” on “a few little technical bits” of his sport, with out revealing the complete extent.

“Simply smoothing out a couple of areas,” he mentioned.

With debate specializing in the standard and amount of England’s Ashes warm-up fixtures, Pope was one of many gamers who took full benefit of the three days at Lilac Hill.

“I at all times take a bit away from warm-up video games. Even when I miss out, there’s at all times one thing to take from it,” he mentioned.

“I am somebody who likes time within the center simply to get myself prepared for a collection. I discovered it actually helpful.”