Alastair Cook compares India Test series win to Ashes triumph Down Under – Cricket News Update
Ecstatic after guiding England to a historic win in his first Test series as skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 rated the 2-1 series victory over India every bit as special as their Ashes triumph in Australia in 2010-11.
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“I think it is on a par with the Ashes,” said captain Cook, who led the side from the front with the bat, amassing a tally of 562 runs, studded with three successive centuries.
“As an Englishman, winning in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 after so long meant a huge amount. But in that dressing room there for that last half an hour, knowing what we had achieved, it was a very special place and it will live long in my memory.”
“It has been an incredible tour. It was a pretty nervy dressing room for the last 150-odd overs, knowing how close we were to something very special, but to go out and do it as convincingly as we did was great,” added Cook, whose batting heroics also earned him the Player of the Series accolade.
What makes the English victory more exciting is the fact that the tourists fought their way back into the series after a nine-wicket crushing in the first Test at Ahmedabad. After http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013’s dismal show in the series opener, the majority of the pundits did not think the series would end in anything other than a win for the hosts.
However, defying all odds the Three Lions came back strongly winning the next two games in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 and Kolkata by ten and seven wickets respectively before drawing the series decider in Nagpur to clinch the series 2-1.
The Poms are next scheduled to play two T20 Internationals against India on December 20 and 22 before returning home for Christmas and the New Year. They will return to India in the first week of January to play five ODIs against the Men in Blue.
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