Ashes debacle: Cook to reconsider Eng captaincy
22 Jan 2014 5:25 AM IST
Coming on top of a 5-0 Ashes whitewash, Cook said he would review his position as skipper once the tour is over. ‘I think I am going to have to make a decision on that stuff after we take stock after the next two games. We are going to have to sit down and talk about a lot of things. I think there will be some changes, I think English cricket needs a little bit of a change as well,’ Cook said.
‘Obviously in the last few months we haven’t played the cricket we are capable of and we have to look at the reasons why but this is not really the time and place to discuss that, he added.
After the final Test in Sydney two weeks ago, the England and Wales Cricket Board backed Cook to remain as skipper and he strongly declared his own wish to remain in the job.
However, the toll of more and more defeats seems to be wearing him down and a question about his own future brought a different response this time. ‘I don’t really want to get dragged into it. It’s been two weeks since someone has asked me that question and a lot has happened in two weeks,’ he admitted.
‘Obviously in the last few months we haven’t played the cricket we are capable of and we have to look at the reasons why but this is not really the time and place to discuss that, he added.
After the final Test in Sydney two weeks ago, the England and Wales Cricket Board backed Cook to remain as skipper and he strongly declared his own wish to remain in the job.
However, the toll of more and more defeats seems to be wearing him down and a question about his own future brought a different response this time. ‘I don’t really want to get dragged into it. It’s been two weeks since someone has asked me that question and a lot has happened in two weeks,’ he admitted.
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