Alastair Cook relieved to have beaten New Zealand in the last ODI – Cricket News
England’s captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026, is relieved to have avoided a whitewash in the three-match One Day International (ODI) series against New Zealand at home and said that his side showed character in the last
fixture at Nottingham.
Having lost the opening two encounters at the Lord’s and Southampton respectively, the Poms bounced back hard in the last match and defeated the Black Caps by 34 runs to enter the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Champions Trophy 2013 with
a positive frame of mind.
While expressing his views in the post-match presentation ceremony, the left-handed opening batsman admitted that his team desperately needed that victory to regain some confidence. Cook knows that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 still
need to improve but he is satisfied with the effort of the boys in the last match.
"The win was very important and we thought we played pretty well," said Cook. "We haven't got it right this series, we're almost there but if you're not 100% you get beaten but we showed character and the different
side worked today."
On the other side of the coin, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129, the Kiwi skipper is delighted to have won the series and hopes to carry on with the same momentum in the mega event, which begins today at Cardiff, with the opening
fixture between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
McCullum thinks that the cameo of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 the final ODI.
"Today we were good for the majority of the game but two periods cost us: Jos Buttler's innings and losing 4 for 20 odd through the middle. But we showed that if we continue to execute our plans we're a good
side. Overall we'll take confidence form this series into the Champions Trophy," the wicketkeeper/batsman expressed.
Buttler batted out of his skin at Nottingham and smashed 47 unbeaten runs off merely 16 balls with the help of half a dozen boundaries and three massive hits out of the park.
England are now set to take on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in their first match of the Champions Trophy at Birmingham on Saturday, which will be a full house.
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