James Anderson has claimed that England need to deal with the pressure of being the world's number one ranked Test side.

England were comprehensively beaten by South Africa in the first Test at The Oval and Anderson admits that the team need to deal better with expectations.

The swing bowler told the Evening Standard: "When you're trying to become number one in the world, you're trying to chase everyone else down and now, we're the ones being chased.

"So it's a different position we're in and maybe we've not quite come to terms with that yet.

"It was our goal for a number of years to get to the top of the rankings and when you get there, you want to stay there. We know if we lose the series, we won't stay there. People expect you to play as the No1 team in the world and we didn't do that this week."

The second Test takes place at Headingley and begins next Thursday.