Previously sure to play: cook

While taking the podium to go to the press gathered before the first test against India, Alastair Cook seemed relaxed and calm of a short break after the hard defeat of the test series against Sri Lanka.

Having been under pressure from all rooms due to the bad streak of his team, the patron of England hoped to put things directly against India.
“It was good to be 10 days away and now he is really excited to play a great series of tests. We do not play too many proof series of five games and India is a very large team, ”said Cook.

He also expected the series against India to end the famine of the races of his bat. “I’ve never felt that I’ve been hitting the ball particularly bad this summer,” Cook said. “I have not been able to transform the work done on the networks into the matches.

“As one of the six best batters, you must write down the races, whether you are the captain or not. I have not been doing that in the last year more or less and nobody is more interested in correcting that of what I. I have worked very hard in the last 10 days and now I have to make sure that my mind is clarified when I go out to hit.

“The form is always at an entrance. That is a beauty so I can’t understand. You enter the bat, you feel a little rusty during the first 10 minutes, you have a little luck and you are back where you were. No one can understand why you have these peaks and channels in your career: the best players have less of them and are quite consistent. I know I have to score races in this series, ”said the captain of England.

There was an interrogation sign about Matt Prior’s physical condition after informing a slight oppression in his right thigh during Monday’s practice. Although Jos Buttler has been summoned as a cover for Wicktkeeper batter, Cook was confident that he will be able to take the field at Trent Bridge.

“It’s quite good. Yesterday he had some swelling in his thigh, but he has done everything we asked him to do today. We are 99 percent sure that he will be fine and will have a small check in the morning to secure it. ”

The accumulation of this series and the composition of the two parties has caused everyone to believe that it will be a strict contest between the two young and inexperienced teams, anxious to conquer their loss gusts.

Cook, who took England to a 4-0 laundering at home against India in 2011, understands that the unpredictability of the Indian young team could be dangerous.

“Not many of his boys have played a test in England before. You can see it in two ways. You can say that they will lose the experience of certain players in certain situations, but, again, most of these boys have no scars of 2011. They can be a really competitive side and we know it, “he acknowledged.

The employer also varies from the workload that its two main patters, James Anderson and Stuart Broad, will have to endure the long series in the absence of Graeme Swann.

“We know that Stuart’s knee can be a bit sore and Jimmy is over 30 years old so he can suffer pain a little before before. But 90 mph was launched in the last series, even after bowling bowling. So, he has always managed to fight that. We will know more after this series, ”he said.