Alastair Cook happy with his team’s fight in the second innings – Cricket News Update
Disappointed after losing the first Test of the four-match series against India, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026, the England captain, is heartened by his side’s performance in the second innings of the encounter and hopes for an improved show in the next Test, which begins
from November 23, at Mumbai.
After allowing India to post a huge score of 521 for the loss of eight wickets on the board in their first innings, English batsmen crumbled under pressure and were dismissed for merely 191 runs in reply.
The home team enforced the follow-on but the visitors came up with a better fight and gave a tough time to the Indian bowlers, who had their tails up throughout the fixture. Cook and company scored 406 runs in their second innings, which was still not enough
to avoid a nine wicket defeat by the Men in Blue.
Cook, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 remained the star performers for the Poms, helping their side take the match into the fifth day.
With five wickets down at stumps on day four, the England captain felt that he had a small chance of saving the match for his side but he and Prior could not carry on with the good work on the match’s last day.
Cook expressed, “There was an outside chance: Matty and I knew we would have to do the majority of the work. We got closer and closer and knew http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 had done a huge amount of overs in the field as well.”
At the half-way stage of the match, after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013’s dismal performance in the first innings, it looked as if the rest of the match was going to be a one-sided affair; however, the left-handed opener is delighted with the kind of form his boys showed to make
things tough for India.
He added: “It was a great fight-back. We were in a very tough situation and to get to the last day there is always a glimmer of hope. It had to be something very special - unfortunately it wasn't meant to be today. We need to work hard so when we go to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820
we can start again.”
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