London, Aug 26: Former England captain
Michael Vaughan and ex-spinner Graeme
Swann said that Alastair Cook must be sacked
as the One-Day International (ODI) captain for
England to win the 2015 World Cup. Both
Vaughan and Swann feel that the selectors are
picking the ODI side on the basis of
performance in Tests and that should stop
immediately.
“We pick one-day teams on Test form. Test
form has made it easier for the selectors to
have a more conservative selection than most
people want to see,” Swann was quoted as
saying by BBC’s Test Match Special. ”Alastair
Cook is the most stubborn man in the world.
He has almost backed himself into a corner
where he’s got to carry on. I don’t think we’ve
got a cat in hell’s chance of winning the World
Cup.”
Vaughan, who captained England in the 2007
World Cup in the Caribbean, feels the team
needs some big strikers up the order. ”If you
look at the last five England captains, Mike
Atherton, Nasser Hussain, myself, Andrew
Strauss and Alastair Cook, we are all Test
players. We were all brought up playing the
forward defensive and leaving it around the off
stump. Occupying the crease, playing for a bit
of time, and we were all one-day captains.”
“We’ve made the same mistake now as we did
in my time, five to six years ago and in the
1990s. England are looking too much at these
two new white balls. The other teams have
gone for power at the top and all the way
through. India have got strikers all the way
down the order, South Africa and Australia the
same. You need power at the top, in the
middle and at the end,” Vaughan was quoted as
saying by BBC Test Match Special.
Both Swann and Vaughan feel that young
players must be selected in the ODI side. ”I’ve
just seen that the sponsors here are Royal
London and the tagline on their adverts is
‘we’re so yesterday’ and they couldn’t sum up
the England one-day team any more in my
view. Some of my best mates – Cook, Ian Bell,
Gary Ballance – are not one-day players who
are going to win you a World Cup. Alex Hales is
going to win you a World Cup, while James
Vince, Jason Roy, Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan are
all players I wouldn’t want to bowl at, who can
build a total of 360-370
“I love Alastair Cook dearly but I don’t think
he should be bothering playing ODI cricket any
more, he doesn’t need to. Even when I played I
never thought we were a dynamic team
compared to the teams we were playing
against. When we got to No.1 in the world it
was because we won 10 games in a row at
home, not because we were in Australia
beating them at home,” said Swann. http://us.india.com/sports/england-have-no-chance-of-winning-2015-icc-cricket-world-cup-graeme-swann-130653/
Michael Vaughan and ex-spinner Graeme
Swann said that Alastair Cook must be sacked
as the One-Day International (ODI) captain for
England to win the 2015 World Cup. Both
Vaughan and Swann feel that the selectors are
picking the ODI side on the basis of
performance in Tests and that should stop
immediately.
“We pick one-day teams on Test form. Test
form has made it easier for the selectors to
have a more conservative selection than most
people want to see,” Swann was quoted as
saying by BBC’s Test Match Special. ”Alastair
Cook is the most stubborn man in the world.
He has almost backed himself into a corner
where he’s got to carry on. I don’t think we’ve
got a cat in hell’s chance of winning the World
Cup.”
Vaughan, who captained England in the 2007
World Cup in the Caribbean, feels the team
needs some big strikers up the order. ”If you
look at the last five England captains, Mike
Atherton, Nasser Hussain, myself, Andrew
Strauss and Alastair Cook, we are all Test
players. We were all brought up playing the
forward defensive and leaving it around the off
stump. Occupying the crease, playing for a bit
of time, and we were all one-day captains.”
“We’ve made the same mistake now as we did
in my time, five to six years ago and in the
1990s. England are looking too much at these
two new white balls. The other teams have
gone for power at the top and all the way
through. India have got strikers all the way
down the order, South Africa and Australia the
same. You need power at the top, in the
middle and at the end,” Vaughan was quoted as
saying by BBC Test Match Special.
Both Swann and Vaughan feel that young
players must be selected in the ODI side. ”I’ve
just seen that the sponsors here are Royal
London and the tagline on their adverts is
‘we’re so yesterday’ and they couldn’t sum up
the England one-day team any more in my
view. Some of my best mates – Cook, Ian Bell,
Gary Ballance – are not one-day players who
are going to win you a World Cup. Alex Hales is
going to win you a World Cup, while James
Vince, Jason Roy, Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan are
all players I wouldn’t want to bowl at, who can
build a total of 360-370
“I love Alastair Cook dearly but I don’t think
he should be bothering playing ODI cricket any
more, he doesn’t need to. Even when I played I
never thought we were a dynamic team
compared to the teams we were playing
against. When we got to No.1 in the world it
was because we won 10 games in a row at
home, not because we were in Australia
beating them at home,” said Swann. http://us.india.com/sports/england-have-no-chance-of-winning-2015-icc-cricket-world-cup-graeme-swann-130653/
