Man of the Series

[Athlai]

Gotta be Tendulkar.

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by Athlai

Gotta be Tendulkar.

Nah, Inzy.

[Spark]

Originally Posted by Jono

Any semblance of a debate on this has been Cook'd now.

oh ho ho ho

[Burgey]

It's hard to appreciate the epic nature of Cook's series here. This is an all time series from one player. 30, 50 year's time and people will look back on these numbers in something approaching awe. Incredible really.

[GotSpin]

I'll be there to talk it down

[flibbertyjibber]

Originally Posted by Burgey

It's hard to appreciate the epic nature of Cook's series here. This is an all time series from one player. 30, 50 year's time and people will look back on these numbers in something approaching awe. Incredible really.

Yeah and you had 2 buggers who did the same in 89 in Taylor and Waugh. Shows how great they were that year that only Vaughan and Cook since have had anything like a series like that.

[Jono]

Originally Posted by Got_Spin

I'll be there to talk it down

Yeah, tell the grandkids it was just minnow bashing

[Burgey]

Originally Posted by Got_Spin

I'll be there to talk it down

I probably won't be

Originally Posted by flibbertyjibber

Yeah and you had 2 buggers who did the same in 89 in Taylor and Waugh. Shows how great they were that year that only Vaughan and Cook since have had anything like a series like that.

Yeah. Didn't Taylor score 800+? An extra test I know, but that's insane.

[Jono]

Wish I could rememeber the 6 test series.

So much test cricket

[flibbertyjibber]

Originally Posted by Burgey

Yeah. Didn't Taylor score 800+? An extra test I know, but that's insane.

Yeah Taylor got 839 runs and Waugh averaged 126.5

[Burgey]

Originally Posted by flibbertyjibber

Yeah Taylor got 839 runs and Waugh averaged 126.5

Bloody hell. Took til the 3rd test for England to get Waugh out iirc. 18 months later he was dropped too.

[benchmark00]

Only problem I have in awarding Cook the award is that it's a bit of a stretch to call him a 'man'.

The **** was in a choir ffs.

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by Burgey

It's hard to appreciate the epic nature of Cook's series here. This is an all time series from one player. 30, 50 year's time and people will look back on these numbers in something approaching awe. Incredible really.

So funny that him and Hussey were probably the biggest question marks in their batting line-ups before the series (maybe Colly & North aside).

Cook gave a decent interview before where he said that when you are in form, you have to make it count, and that Gooch told him hundreds don't win matches, big hundreds do. I used to criticise Cook for either not converting his 50s or getting out in the low 100s all the time. Bloody hell, he's shut me up. The guy's six months younger than I am, mind boggling really.

[Uppercut]

Yeah, still only 26. He'll break all kinds of records.

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by Burgey

It's hard to appreciate the epic nature of Cook's series here. This is an all time series from one player. 30, 50 year's time and people will look back on these numbers in something approaching awe. Incredible really.

Think if anything it gives me a greater appreciation of guys like Mark Taylor who have put up epic numbers in past series. The fact that Cook would still have to score another 70 or so runs to surpass Taylor's series output in 1989 makes me appreciate what an incredible effort that must have been.