Captain Cook wants to lead the world in the 50-over format - Cricket News Update
English captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 wants his team to capitalise on the recent success after routing the No 1 side Australians 4-0, aiming to become a dominant force in the 50-over format.
England is on a winning streak and has now won seven successive One Day International (ODI) home series, while securing 10 ODIs wins in a row, the spree which began with a 130-run victory at Abu Dhabi against Pakistan in February.
The home side completed a comprehensive series victory against the Aussies and would have become the new top ODI side in the world had the match at Edgbaston not been washed out by rain.
Despite their recent success at the international level, a major ODI tournament has eluded England since the format started more than four decades ago. They were thrice the runners-up in World Cup finals with last being in 1992, against a victorious http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193
Khan-led http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 at Melbourne.
Captain Cook is well-aware of history and is quite keen to break the jinx, eyeing to make an initial impact during the next Champions Trophy in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754.
"We hope we're heading in the right direction," said Cook. "Clearly we are, with the group of players we've got. If we want to win tournaments, we have to be playing as well as we are now in the week when we enter those tournaments," the opening batsman
added.
The top Test team in the world has seen its ODI fortunes considerably improved under the leadership of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 player. Such was the dominance of the Poms over their arch rivals that no English batsmen below the number six batting position was required
to bat.
"It feels good, great to win the series, it's been a brilliant effort from the lads. We've never let up, throughout the four games we've played. We've always been at Australia, and always tried to put them under some pressure,” the further added.
England has become the joint-second best ODI team along with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 with 118 points, only a point behind Australia, sitting nervously at 119 points
"That will be the aim. We're desperate to keep building on this, expanding our skills so that we get better as a side," the 27-year-old concluded.
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