Should Alastair Cook consider giving up the captaincy or retiring?

[Furball]

I'm not saying he should lose the job but he may as the press will start a witchhunt soon enough.

What's the realistic alternative?

 

[wpdavid]

I'm not saying he should lose the job but he may as the press will start a witchhunt soon enough.

You may be right, as there are some spectacularly stupid people who get paid to spout their views in our glorious press (viz the rent-a-quotes predicting successive 5-0's a few months ago). But I hope you're wrong. I'd like to think that most of our cricket writers realise that the problems run far deeper than Cook not being a latter day Mike Brearley in the art of captaincy.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What's the realistic alternative?

Bell probably.

As I say I am not for it but it is the sort of daft thing that might happen.

 

[Burgey]

You may be right, as there are some spectacularly stupid people who get paid to spout their views in our glorious press (viz the rent-a-quotes predicting successive 5-0's a few months ago). But I hope you're wrong. I'd like to think that most of our cricket writers realise that the problems run far deeper than Cook not being a latter day Mike Brearley in the art of captaincy.

He's batting like Brearley ATM

 

[Red]

Pretty much all English captains have been ****. There'd be no one who could do any better than Cook

 

[Viscount Tom]

He's batting like Brearley ATM

Would take that if we hammering you blokes like we did under Brearley.

 

[mullarkey]

He's batting like Brearley ATM

Ah... Mike Brearley the finest of human beings.

 

[Jono]

Genuinely can't believe this is being seriously debated. Its ludicrous (i.e. ludacris)

 

[GIMH]

It's prevalent on twitter as well. And I've even seen a suggestion that Broad takes the captaincy

 

[Jono]

Brutal. Hate such knee-jerk reactions. He and the team are not doing well, and a lot of them are playing spineless weak cricket. But fmd you don't remove him as captain already.

 

[GIMH]

It's the culture across sport as a whole. Footy managers oversee a run of one win in six and there are mass demonstrations.

 

[Tangles]

It's the culture across sport as a whole. Footy managers oversee a run of one win in six and there are mass demonstrations.

Kids eh.

 

[Prince EWS]

If Cook doesn't want to be captain or doesn't want to play cricket anymore then he should consider giving it up. Otherwise, no.

It's not his responsibility to decide if he's good enough for the captaincy, or his spot in the side (lol); a group of blokes are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for that. He just needs to decide whether he wants to be considered for captaincy, and for team selection.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Laughable thread

 

[BoyBrumby]

Alastair's captaincy Cooked?

Cook's future in jeopardy after another woeful display.

Sez The Independent's Stephen Brenkley.

 

[wiff]

You don't want a captain like Bell, he's too meek and mild. You want someone that can give stirring speeches. And that man is Kevin Pietersen. He's the man that can bring the team together and win back the ashes, but it's got to be done for Perth. Get rid of the big doe-eyed Cook, get rid of him immediately, pack his bags and send him home.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Well, Prior's the VC, but Matt seems one of nature's born sidekicks (no slight intended, cricket is full of quality players who didn't have what it took to be captain, for whatever reason) & captaining from behind the pegs is always a big ask (Dhoni's success notwithstanding), as wiff suggests Bell doesn't strike one as a born leader either, we've been there and done that with KP, so Broad seems the obvious next man to step up.

Already the T20 skip, after all. Whatever else he's been accused of being shy and retiring isn't one of them. Has more of a hint of the devil about him than the incumbent, who still resembles the chorister he once was.

 

[wiff]

Yeah I was thinking the worse one for group harmony would be KP, that is why it would be funny to pick him. MP nope for reasons outlined above. Broad? He stands up for himself that's good. I didn't like him at first at all, but he's starting to get more likeable in a funny sort of way. I like the way he has handled the Oz crowd. He's bowling hasn't let him down. Batting, well he's a hit and miss type player batting lower down so you expect those sort of innings from him. He's got a nice smile. You know what, I do like him now. But still mad to drop Cook at this point.

 

[Tangles]

I like how Broad plays his cricket. If he was in my team he would have copped a massive spray for that last dismissal though. And getting bowled around his legs.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I like how Broad plays his cricket. If he was in my team he would have copped a massive spray for that last dismissal though.

Pretty much identical to the captain's, wasn't it?

Shyte for a #8, yes, but it's really passing the pearl handled revolver time when it's an opener (and skipper to boot).