Bell praises Cook and the bowling attack – Cricket News Update
Jubilant after his team’s emphatic victory over India in the third Test of the four-match series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 and the team’s bowlers for setting
up a historic victory.
The hosts outclassed the Poms in the first encounter of the series at Ahmedabad and looked set to dominate the competition. However, the visitors lifted their spirits at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 and Kolkata to take an unassailable lead of 2-1 in the
series.
England’s captain, Cook, has led the team from the front, scoring hundreds in all three matches so far and has emerged to be one of the world’s finest opening batsmen in Test cricket. The left-hander scored a brilliant 190 in the first
innings before getting run-out in a bizarre manner.
Cook was named as the Player of the Match for his outstanding innings and is surely the leading contender for the Player of the Series award, going into the last match.
English batsmen are usually not strong against spin but Bell, in his column for
The Independent, stated that the left-hander played out of his skin and deserved a double century.
“Cookie gave us a complete master-class in batting on the subcontinent. It was only a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Timothy-Raymond-Ambrose-c94079 run-out that deprived him of an incredible double century,” said the middle-order batsman.
The cricketer from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 team is high on confidence and are geared up to carry on with their dominance in the
last match of the battle, which commences from December 13, at Nagpur.
“Our bowlers from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Dermott-Monteith-c65601 and Swann always looked like taking 20 wickets and that is what we need to do to win in Nagpur,” he added. “We head to this week's fourth Test in confident mood. After so many difficult tours
to the subcontinent, it's satisfying to finally have the opposition worrying about selection issues. We've got them on the back foot – and that's exactly where we plan on keeping them.”
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