England opener Alastair Cook is eager to prove his poor statistics against the Australian bowlers wrong as the visitors take on Australia in the opener of the much awaited Ashes, starting Thursday this week.
The paltry batting average of 26.21 in ten Ashes Test matches clearly shows the problems the 25-year-old left-hander has had against the bowlers from Downunder.
"You can't hide behind the fact of that statistic and hopefully over the next two months, I can prove people wrong on that," Cook said.
During England’s last tour of Australia, the visitors suffered a 5-0 whitewash and Cook, who was 21 at that time, had a disappointing tour individually as well. But the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gloucestershire-c785 player, who has a career average of 48.2, is confident
that he is a much better player this time
"I've seen a lot more cricket. I've experienced the highs of scoring some runs and the lows of not scoring runs. So I feel as though I'm more complete and that I understand what I have to do to score runs,” he said.
If England want to retain the Ashes title, Alastair Cook must form a solid opening partnership with skipper Andrew Strauss. Cook, who emerged on the international arena with a gusty century on his debut in 2006, holds a remarkable batting
record in his Test cricket career with a tally of 4,364 runs from 60 Tests including 13 centuries and 55 fifties. The only side, that never let him play his heroics is Australia but is hopeful that he can now cope with the Ashes rivals as well.
The Ashes rift gets underway at Gabba on Thursday. The Aussies have not been defeated in Brisbane since November 1988, and England is without a victory at the Gabba since 1986. But Strauss's men managed to thwart http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 at the historical
Lord's ground for the first time in 75 years in 2009 and Cook was hopeful that his side would repeat the 2009 summer when they will take on men from Downunder in the first Ashes Test.
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