http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 will certainly break my record, feels Graham Gooch – Cricket News Update
England’s batting coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Alan-Gooch-c60530, feels that Alastair Cook has very efficiently adapted to the role of the country’s Test captain and believes that the left-handed batsman will break many records in future.
The 27-year-old cricketer is presently on his first tour as the official England Test skipper, doing a brilliant job against India, both as a captain as well as a high-quality opening batsman.
The Poms were thrashed in the opening match of the battle at Ahmedabad, with the hosts looking a much better team in all three departments of the game. Cook’s men however, had other plans as they bounced back hard to win the next two
Tests, taking an unassailable lead in the series.
Leading a team in international cricket can easily affect a player’s individual performance but Cook has done tremendously well in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, scoring three consecutive hundreds in trying circumstances.
The batting coach is delighted with the way the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 cricketer has adjusted to the added responsibilities on his shoulders and hopes that the opening batsman will continue to perform well in the coming years as well.
“Captaincy has enhanced his run scoring already,” Gooch said. “It's difficult to look into a crystal ball and say whether it will affect him down the line but all the opportunities are there for him. He's mentally strong, that's his
greatest asset, and he could achieve a lot of things.”
Gooch, who is presently the leading run-getter in Tests for England with 8900 runs under his belt, understands that the England skipper is going to break his record very soon. Cook already has more than seven thousand runs in the five-day
format, including 23 centuries, which is an extra-ordinary record for a 27-year-old player.
The former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 captain believes that Cook has become a match-winner for the country now and the best part about the opening batsman is that he never takes things for granted.
“He'll certainly go past my record in the not too distant future the way it's going and good on him because he'll deserve that. He's mastered his art to a degree and is always looking to improve. If he delivers, England win matches,”
he added.
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