Alastair Cook not interested in England’s Test captaincy – Cricket News Update
After a convincing 1-0 victory in the Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, the English side failed to make an impression in the shorter version of the game as they suffered a humiliating nine-wicket defeat in the only Twenty20 International on Saturday, June 25,
2010.
England’s next http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Richard-Griffith-c41953 challenge will be to demonstrate a decent performance in the upcoming five-match One Day International (ODI) series and dismiss the notion that the Poms are too strong for Test cricket and too weak in the limited-overs format of the game.
The series will start with a high-voltage first ODI at the Kennington Oval, on Monday, June 28, 2011, and England’s One-Day skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alastair-Nathan-Cook-c42852, is confident about his team’s fine performance in the crucial series.
The ODI series against the Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 will be Cook’s first outing as the leader of the side and the skipper aimed to seal an emphatic victory in the ODI series and establish himself as a good captain. He, meanwhile, rubbished the rumours that he is interested
the Test captaincy, replacing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 who led the side to two consecutive Ashes triumphs.
"I feel honoured to captain England's One-day side. It's certainly not an audition, as it's a job on its own. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flower-c44362 and Andrew Strauss are our two big leaders and Stuart Broad and I are very fortunate to have two experienced guys and two successful
guys leading us," Cook said.
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) recently adopted a split-captaincy policy, appointing three separate skippers for each version of the game. While Strauss retained his position as Test skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465 and Cook were given the responsibility to
lead the Twenty20 and ODIs side respectively.
Cook claimed that ECB’s three-pillared approach is a unique idea and it will start producing results very soon.
"They make decisions on the direction of Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107
periods," added the Gloucester-born cricketer who has served England in 26 ODIs.
Furthermore, the 26-year-old skipper warned the islanders not to take English side lightly as the Poms will come hard on them in the ODIs.
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