Captain Cook confident he can plot England’s course
TEST run machine Alastair Cook has vowed to prove his doubters wrong when he resumes his England one-day career as captain against Sri Lanka on today.
Cook’s most obvious role model in terms of restructuring his Test game to suit the shorter form is his predecessor as ODI skipper Andrew Strauss.
By the time he retired from one-dayers following this year’s World Cup, Strauss had developed into a risk-taking strokemaker and was one of the team’s danger men.
“I think Straussy’s a great example for me,” he said. “When he first started playing one-day cricket I think he had a strike-rate of about 65, maybe 70. Towards the end his career strike-rate was up to 80. You can evolve, you can improve and he did.”