“I think I will be fit for the game,” Anderson said of the Ireland fixture. “Whether I play or not is probably another matter really. I definitely don’t want to risk it.
“I feel good, fine. I had a scan on the second day of that game. It was a little groin strain. It’s a 10-day recovery period, and I’m rehabbing already, running next week. It was the best result of a bad situation. I’m disappointed to have to pull out of a game but with what’s to come in the summer it was actually a pretty good result.”
“That was a different, more serious injury,” Anderson said of his 2019 experience. “I ripped my calf earlier that summer, and it was a real push to try to get fit for that first Test. I don’t feel like this is anywhere near that severity.
“I am desperate to be fit for the first Ashes Test. If that means missing the Ireland Test, so be it.”
