Matthew Fisher aiming to build on England Test debut as Yorkshire return looms

The seamer debuted in the second West Indies Test in Barbados, taking the wicket of John Campbell, and wants to continue to improve starting in the opening rounds of the LV= Insurance County Championship

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Matthew Fisher will use James Anderson as the standard while attempting to build on making his England Test debut in the West Indies.

The 24-year-old played the second Test in Barbados and made John Campbell his first and only victim.

Fisher will make his return for Yorkshire, who kick off their LV= Insurance County Championship campaign at Gloucestershire starting Thursday, April 14.

Clinging to his place will be made all the more difficult by Anderson and Stuart Broad being back under consideration after being left out of the Caribbean tour.

"I’m hoping that I’m a better bowler for this experience, from bowling at Test players for a month," he told Press Association. "There are times in the nets when you think you’re bowling at 70mph because of how they play you.

"I just want to push myself as far as I can. Some people might have more talent than me, some people might be better than me, but I want to do whatever I can with what I’ve got. If that’s one Test or a hundred Tests, I just want to get the most out of myself.

"I was chatting to Zak Crawley and he said to me ‘you think that you want this before you play for England, but once you do you’ll want it so much more’. That summed it up perfectly.

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Fisher is back in Yorkshire action this week (Getty Images/Alex Pantling)

"If Jimmy Anderson is the complete bowler, and I’d say he is, it’s about how close I can get to that over the course of my career. I’m not going to be there at 24, of course, I’m not."

The clash at Bristol is Yorkshire's first competitive game since Azeem Rafiq’s damning testimony regarding his treatment during two spells at the club to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee last November.

"I feel we have a group that is willing to be educated, willing to change," Fisher added.

"I got into cricket because of my role models and as players, we hope that kids from all backgrounds can see every one of us as a role model.

"I believe when you get a contract as a professional cricketer it’s not just the playing part that is your responsibility: it’s how you are with the fans, how you are with the media, how you are with the staff and players around you.”

"Everyone in the sport, with what’s gone on, has a responsibility now to grow the game and make it a game for everyone. The group we have at Yorkshire now is together on that and wants to do that. I feel in very recent past it has been like that."


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