Holder hails 'great of the game' Anderson

Jason Holder compared England losing James Anderson to when the West Indies lost Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

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00:00Yeah, it's been good battles over the years, no doubt. I'm sure this one will be a good battle as well too.

00:06I'm sure he's got still a lot left in the tank and stuff to prove.

00:11But yeah, always like playing against, you know, great players and he's no doubt one of the great players of the game.

00:17So looking forward to the contest for one last time.

00:19I can only take it back to my experience of playing with Shibnarensha on the pole, for instance.

00:23And yeah, it was a bittersweet feeling in the sense where someone who's done so much for Westerners cricket,

00:31you know, it's kind of just being pinched to wake up that he's actually finishing and taking it back.

00:39Well, taking myself back to that moment, it's just like, well, you're losing such a powerful figure in the dressing room.

00:44I guess no doubt it would be the same thing for England.

00:47But, you know, as everything else, we've got to move on many times.

00:51You know, it's unfortunate we can't play cricket forever or we can't play professional sport forever.

00:56And at some point we've got to close the curtains.

00:59And some people get to do it on their own terms and some people don't.

01:03So it's just unfortunate sometimes when you don't get that chance after playing for so long.