England skipper Alastair Cook on Thursday praised the efforts of his team's senior members for their contribution in the 266-run victory over India in the third Test here. ‘The guys who were questioned really delivered. It’s great to see Ian Bell score a big hundred. When you set the game up like we did, you get ahead of the game and can dictate it.
The weight on me is lifted. Certainly if I’d scored nought and five, and we’d lost the game, it would have been a whole lot different. As I said at Lord’s, I felt I’d turned the corner there and under that sort of pressure, the first innings’ fifty meant a lot,’ said Cook at the post-match press conference. Cook added his team was determined to turn the tables. ‘We were relentless in this game. We never let India off the hook and it takes a lot of skill and determination to do that. When we were bowling, we’ve managed to keep that pressure for the whole session. And with the bat we got greedy, that set up the game,’ he said.
The weight on me is lifted. Certainly if I’d scored nought and five, and we’d lost the game, it would have been a whole lot different. As I said at Lord’s, I felt I’d turned the corner there and under that sort of pressure, the first innings’ fifty meant a lot,’ said Cook at the post-match press conference. Cook added his team was determined to turn the tables. ‘We were relentless in this game. We never let India off the hook and it takes a lot of skill and determination to do that. When we were bowling, we’ve managed to keep that pressure for the whole session. And with the bat we got greedy, that set up the game,’ he said.