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“Yes I’m not playing this game, Broady’s going,” Anderson said ahead of the dead-rubber final Test of the three-match series when the visitors will be gunning for a 3-0 whitewash.
“The thinking is that with the series sewn up it’s an opportunity to rotate.
“Going to the West Indies as well (in January) and with a view to that I think the feeling is they want Broady to get some Test cricket under his belt,” said Anderson, 36.
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Anderson has taken just one wicket over two Tests that have seen the spinners dominate.
England sewed up the series — a first away series win since beating South Africa in 2015-16 — on Sunday in Kandy, in a closer contest than their first Test trouncing of the hosts in Galle.
The final Test begins in Colombo on Friday.