braveneutral wrote:A CBE says otherwise.
You think he will start being as to be referred to as the commander
braveneutral wrote:A CBE says otherwise.
365notout wrote:Alastair Cook 10,000 Test match runs:
- 12th batsman (all countries)
- 1st Englishman
- Youngest to reach the milestone
But will he be considered an England great?
sussexpob wrote:braveneutral wrote:A CBE says otherwise.
You think he will start being as to be referred to as the commander
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
sussexpob wrote:I dont think Cook will play on much longer.
Adi wrote:sussexpob wrote:I dont think Cook will play on much longer.
Cook is just over 33 years. As a specialist batsman and especially having a good history of not getting injured, he may well play 7 years, which imo are enough for him to score the 3916 runs.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Every time England have a bad tour, with a player who has been going as long as him, you wonder if that will be it.
Seven years feels an awful lot of cricket and travelling. And dumps him into middle age just as his career ends.
It means playing in empty stadiums in Trinidad or Dunedin trying to find motivation to go on.
It means spending time on the road with players half your age.
Only cricket monomaniacs like Boycott put themselves through that. And if Cook doesn't have the drive to score runs and win, he doesn't have any genius or even method to fall back on.
sussexpob wrote:How many modern day captains who took charge for at least 3-4 years, made it past 35 in the game? Ponting did, but his average plummets for the last 4 years of his career into the mid 30s, and that is an average itself based on a few flat track scores that prop it up. When he quit the captaincy coming into his mid 30s, he was arguably done already. Smith, Fleming, Dhoni, Strauss.... none of them made it past 35, Smith was done not much past 30, as was Dhoni.
Cook had a hugely challenging era to work under, and Id be surprised if he retained his love for playing through that. I think it tells that his career is turning into failures mixed with big efforts, and nothing in between. When he looks a bit fresher and more into it, he still has it. But he doesnt seem to have that energy to be consistent.
So yeah. Id expect he retires soon. I mean, who would want to be involved with this shower of shite a minute longer.
Sachin is not the rule, he is very much the exception.
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