England needs to learn quickly from the loss says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 – Cricket News Update
England’s Captain, Alastair Cook, who comprehended that the Indian hosts outplayed his side in the series opener with a 126 runs defeat on Friday, feels that the Poms should now learn quickly from the loss and heed into factors which contributed to their
slip of performance.
“We’re going to have to learn from this, and that’s the beauty of a five-match series. We know that (playing against spin) is an issue, and that’s a skill thing. We’re going to work hard on that in the next couple of days,” said Cook during his post-match
comments.
During the opening One Day International (ODI) bout from India’s 5-match home series, Alastair Cook’s squad was faced with an imposing chase of 301 runs, complements to the toss winning Men in Blue Captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, who batted an undefeated
stint of 87 runs, with the aid of 10 boundaries and a single out of the park.
Although Captain Cook came out with a worthy response to the hosts, but, to his despair, was faced with a swift crumble on his line-up, thanks to the prime damage delivered by the Indian young trio, built on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228 and Ravindra
Jadeja, all of whom collected 8 wickets amongst them.
With Cook top scoring the line-up with a solid total of 60 runs, English players were finally bowled out in 36.1 overs, falling 126 runs off the mark.
However, the Poms Skipper admitted that with 4 more games still ahead of his team, the tourists will have to get their act right, and fall back hard on the hosts.
“We're going to have to do this now in tough conditions, we need to stay very tight, very strong as a team, analyse where we went wrong and put things better,” said Cook.
As for the proud Indian Skipper, Dhoni admitted that his contribution to the team came with a delightful feeling and that the whole of the batting department performed exceptionally well throughout the match.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780, on October 17, 2011.
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