England.....now I Think You Deserve To Stay Top In Test Rankings.....

[Yuva Nataratna]

[b] [size=4]Cook savours 'a special tour'[/size][/b]


[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]Cook left the presentation in Nagpur overladen with trophies after England completed their first series win in India for 28 years.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]Not just one series trophy but two, plus individual recognition as man of the series, completed a perfect start to Cook's Test captaincy as he joined Douglas Jardine, David Gower and Tony Greig as the only England skippers to win a Test series in India.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]Add his unofficial stint as Test captain in Bangladesh when he stood in for Andrew Strauss and he has already twice led England to victories in sub-continent conditions which have so often proved alien.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]Cook even put the 2-1 series win alongside the accepted pinnacle for an England player - victory in the Ashes. "It is obviously a very special day, a special tour," he said. "I think it is on a par with the Ashes. As an Englishman winning in Australia after so long meant a huge amount. But to be in that that dressing room there for that last half an hour knowing what we had achieved was a very special place and it will live long in my memory."[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]England's celebrations were a world away from their misery in Ahmedabad less than a month ago when they were beaten by an innings in the opening Test, their frailties against spin again apparent.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]Since then, Cook has taken particular pride in England's ability to silence their demons and to adapt to whatever conditions have been thrown at them. His own run tally of 568 in the series led the way set the example with the bat as England conquered India's spinners and they also unveiled two superior slow bowlers themselves in Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann.[/size][/font][/color]

[Yuva Nataratna]

Cook....

[Yuva Nataratna]

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As the tour developed, Cook got the support he needed from senior players in the dressing room: Kevin Pietersen, the integrated version, looking content with life; Matt Prior, as big an influence on England as Adam Gilchrist once was on Australia; James Anderson, proving himself in India as a skilled practitioner on demoralising surfaces for fast bowling with old ball and new; and the ever-garrulous Swann, delighted to have a partner in crime in Panesar.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]
"They are big characters in the dressing room," Cook said. "The support they have given me, I couldn't have asked for anything more. To captain those guys can be tough in certain circumstances, but you want that, you want a lot of ideas and strong opinions because that is when you normally get the best thinking done."[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]
Nagpur was the oddest test of all, a pitch that was strikingly slow and uneven at the start and which gradually became more docile, a perfect surface for an England side prepared to bat with discipline to avoid defeat and so win the series.[/size][/font][/color]

[Maximus]

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[Yuva Nataratna]

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[Maximus]

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[Kakateyudu]

I agree

[Yuva Nataratna]

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I agree
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[KunchithaPaadam]

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[Kakateyudu]

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england oollu em goppaga adaledu.. manolle daridranga adaru [img]http://lh6.ggpht.com/-M0XTxLd-mpg/UEJzASXYP7I/AAAAAAAA25o/MX4mAGHb8Do/s219/1.gif[/img]
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[KunchithaPaadam]

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manollu daridram ga aadaru ante mana valla kante pakka vadu baga adinatle kada [img]http://www.desigifs.com/sites/default/files/Brahmi-2.gif?1335771435[/img]
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manavallu daridranga adabatte vallu baga adinattu... ide eng team vere valla tho(like aus or SA) adi unte odipoyevallu..