Atherton urge Alastair Cook to give up ODI captaincy

Continuing his verbal duel with England captain, Alastair Cook, Graeme Swann, to put himself forward to the fresh challenge of regaining the Ashes series with the inevitable failures "chaos" could be missed.

"The biggest thing in the Ashes cricket, Let's not forget that, and I think we will win the Ashes, the World Cup is one that does not give a hoot about the am," Swan said.

"That is why I want to be in the England Test team in the best shape, I still brimming with ideas that the success of the test is expected to be a confident leader Alastair Cook., I think that I can not see them winning many games, the winter away from the splendid," the former the off-spinner bbC Radio 5 Live, he said.


England in the new year, after which they, Christmas and also including India, Sri Lanka, 12 more matches before the tri-series in Australia, with a maximum of seven, complete the one-day series against India at Headingley on Friday, February 14, before the opening match of the World Cup against Australia in Melbourne on

Whatever decisions are made, Swan Cook inevitable winter day, he is not scarred by what is considered to be failures, believes that it is imperative to England's Ashes chances.

"I did not want to play in this series Cooky England were going to play the whole reason I know the brand of cricket., I knew it was not going to be enough, and I do not want to be involved with him when the crisis after the Test series, he did well to increase its stock levels," he said.

Cook, has committed to the tournament, but Paul Downton, ECb Managing Director and James Whitaker, the national selector, there is a need to change the decision out of his hands that could

Split the way forward for the England captaincy, Mike Atherton opines:

Slamming the team's decision-making and choices, Mike Atherton, former captain of the England captaincy split between the Test and one-day cricket is a clear way forward, he said.

"England in the last cycle of the decision-making, however, is still based on historical :. choices are made through the prism of the captaincy in the case of Test cricket at the time of my arguments against Cook were three years ago. His appointment, and therefore I can not be accused of being a Johnny-come-lately on this front," Atherton said in his column for the Times.

The next year, arguing that England will play 17 Test matches between April and December, MA Atherton said: "A person under that kind of pressure on the schedule are the two forms of the game is impossible to give the same amount of energy and focus on the split. Test and one-day cricket captain and forth between a clear the way. "

Advanced scheduling ferocity and unforgiving nature - the traditional rule of thumb is always to play Test cricket you can play all versions of the game is that you look, MA Atherton said two things may have changed, but that is still true - it's hard to understand that excel at two or three forms .

Cricket Test and T20 forms of conflict Emphasising, MA Atherton bowling rankings confirm the divergent forms of the game this is going to become separated.

"Top ten bowlers in Test cricket, there are eight quick bowlers. Twenty-nine of the 20 spinners in the top ten, such as Sunil Narine and Saeed Ajmal are mainly the so-called mystery spinners. Suggested that the extreme differences between the two lists in Test cricket and Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens rugby as have become completely different games, "said the former England captain.

"Cricket in the middle of fifty hovers. Such Kohli helped put England, Quinton de Kock and Shikhar Dhawan, are batsmen like Kumar Sangakkara, Amla, the top ten rankings in One Day International (ODI) are among the players cut, and he's close to 20 in Test cricket than England carved into oblivion Edgbaston on Tuesday as the knife. greater energy and dynamism, Dhawan has shown, "he said.

MA Atherton fashionable clothes can not hope to win the World Cup five months, he said. England take a look at the top talent in the world, they have not won a series in June 2012 from a home in one-day cricket, England have lost at home in their last four series and have won just two out of the last 10 they played in the series.

"Some experts have said that they are not likely to be in New Zealand and Australia, they are stating the obvious. Shrill noise made ​​claims that only the expectations of the people," Artherton said