Cook to resign as ODI captain

[Garson007]

Too bad it's not the format they were actually ****e at.

I still a major shake-up would be best. Create Team KP and see if it lasts a year.

 

[Watson33]

Sometimes you need an anchor in the team to create some glue for the entire innings. That's what Bell does effectively. You don't want people like Morgan and Buttler having to come in around the 20th over because we've lost early wickets and having to knock it about a bit, that's not their game. You want them coming in around the 30th, where they have a license to play their expansive shots and score quickly. Got the final of a major ICC 50-over event with a top 3 of Cook, Bell and Trott providing the anchor for Morgan, Bopara and Buttler. Can't just go gung-ho from ball one. And Bell's SR isn't even that low, 75 is not a bad SR in ODI cricket. Morgan's strike rate is only 86.

 

[Adders]

Jeez I dunno. If Cook is feeling the pinch from captaining both sides then I don't agree with the thegyptian.........he is right to step aside from One Day cricket and devote all his energy and attention into rebuilding our test side.

But I suspect Cab is right, any decision now would be based on emotion, they all just need to get the **** home and distance themselves from this train wreck of a tour before making any decisions.

I'm feeling for Cook right now I really am.

 

[marc71178]

i would agree..think that kieswetter didnt get a fair run either really.

Wrong, he got more than a fair run and wasn't good enough.

 

[Adders]

Agree with a lot George Dobell says here.......George Dobell: England need revitalised Alastair Cook | Cricket News | England | ESPN Cricinfo

he was asked to lead a side lacking five of the players - James Anderson, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Steven Finn and Graeme Swann - who had helped it to No. 1 in the ODI rankings, against a resurgent Australia. It was an impossible task. This was an accident waiting to happen.

Without these men, Cook was sent into battle without ammunition. What he requires now is time to rest and reflect on the impossible task he was given. If Cook was the right man to lead England's ODI side in June 2013 - and all the evidence suggests he was - then there is little reason to believe he is not the right man to lead them in June 2014.

 

[vic_orthdox]

For those who haven't watched the press conference, Cook has said he'll look at things when he gets home and that he doesn't know which way he'll go.

Yeah, tough to know whether people are taking a vibe from the press conference and running with it, or whether this is through leaks from the English camp?

 

[Adders]

So Cook just said he is "desperate to carry on".........puts pay to all this speculation I guess.