Alastair Cook not ready to underestimate any of his bowlers – Cricket news
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 is the leader of the English bowling attack but the left-handed opener does not want to take anything away from the rest of the bowling lineup as well.
The Poms defeated http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in the first Test of the five-match series at Trent Bridge by 14 runs, due to an exceptional bowling performance by Anderson, who picked up five wickets in each innings.
Cook knows that Anderson is regarded as one of the finest fast bowlers of the current era but he thinks that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ST-Finn-c2566 have also been great servants of English cricket in recent times.
“It's a bit disrespectful to the three other guys that are bowling. They are world class bowlers as well in their own right. It can be a dangerous tactic,” said Cook. “Clearly Jimmy is the leader of the attack at the moment but Broady is almost coming up
to 200 Test wickets, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ernest-William-Swanton-c56374 has got (226) Test wickets and Finny is the quickest Englishman to 50 wickets in terms of Tests.”
For his 10 wickets in the encounter, Anderson was named as the Player of the Match but the rest of the bowling line-up also has a crucial role to play in the remaining four Tests of the Ashes in the England captain’s opinion.
“It was Jimmy's game the other day but as I said at the press conference, last time at Lord's it was Broady who got 7-50 in the first innings.”
The second Test of the series is going to start tomorrow at the Lord’s, with the visitors looking to square the series. Australia’s top-order batting struggled to deliver the goods at Trent Bridge and taking into account the fast nature of the Lord’s pitch,
the English fast bowlers should enjoy bowling in the second match as well.
Finn, who picked up a couple of wickets in the first innings of the Trent Bridge Test but remained wicket-less in the second, is under the scrutiny by the English selectors. There is pressure on the lanky fast bowler to perform, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Onions-c1449 and Tim
Bresnan on the sidelines.
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