Alistair Cook

Getting the big runs last night.

Well done. World Class player, Cook. Hopefully, he's around for years to come.

Now go get Kumar Cookie.

 

Get back to hiding, while we were getting an hiding.

 

You were quiet for the first three tests...

 

I agree, that was a cracking knock. A bit too late like, but cracking all the same.

 

Cometh the hour cometh the man.

2 tests two late like

 

Yiadom batting further up the order is making a big difference as well as taking the West Yorkshire bowler out of the team.

 

It's taken you until the fourth test to congratulate him.

 

He wouldn't have been right then.

 

As a long standing viewer (and radio listener in't good old days) of many ashes series i can say i have no interest in what happens in the last 2 tests.
We've lost.
I fully expect us to regain them next time out though.

 

We’ve lost the series you utter bellend. When the pressures on he’s past it. Next.

 

He's still a cracking player but not consistently enough... 240 odd runs on a flat pitch is all fine and well but he hasn't been able to dig in on a testing pitch when things are tough. Hopefully this gives him a bit of confidence to get back into a bit of form.

 

Aussies have taken there foot off the gas now it,s won,means **** all no good doing it when it,s too late.

 

The cricketing equivalent of a much-hyped star striker going two-thirds of the season without scoring a single goal and then getting a hat-trick in the game after his team's been relegated.

The opponents are already crowned champions and are resting the player who usually marks him totally out of the game.

 

To say Alastair Cook is only performing now pressure is off is utter nonsense - Micheal Vaughan

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/...-cook-performing-now-pressure-utter-nonsnese/

 

But that isn't really the point he's trying to make.

 

Not quite, he's been Lyons' 'bunny' this series.

 

Starc's had him as many times as Lyon I think, has also caught him off Hazlewood and has consistently put the sh!ts up him so he plays crap shots at Lyon.

 

He's a class act Cook, no doubt. But his form is not as consistent as it was. The Alistair Cook of the 2010/11 set the tone for the series when he hit his double ton, supported by Trott and Strauss, when we ended up 500 and something for 1 in the second innings. No batsman in the side can consistently stay in now. It was a cracking innings though, can't deny that at all.

 

Well tell that to the ashes statistics.

Plus Vaughan is a bit of a chode lad.