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Cook desperate for England runs

Monday, July 14 2014 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    England and India drew the first Test on Sunday (July 13) at Trent Bridge as Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the second number nine in Test history to make two half-centuries in the same match.

    Home skipper Alastair Cook surprisingly bowled two overs - and removed Ishant Sharma for 13 for his first Test wicket.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE (English): Alastair Cook, England captain

    "I've had a couple of chop ons, then bowled hitting your thigh pad...it's a testing game and these things happen when you're not in the best of form. But it's how you react to them and what you're doing in your practice. If you then suddenly change everything, you're not being true to yourself. I've got to believe the wheel will turn at some stage. I need to start scoring runs at the top of the order for England.

    "Yeah, I mean Simon (Kerrigan) is a very tough kid. I mean, he had a tough eight overs against Australia and he's fought his way back. Until he plays, you will never know but what we have seen of him this week and what 'Moorsey' (coach Peter Moores) knows of him ... you know, Moorsey knows of him better than anyone else, and obviously coaching him for Lancashire for five years ... But he has been bowling at us in the nets and he looks a really good bowler. Obviously, we didn't see the best of him at The Oval in that one game and quite rightly he could have been very nervous, he didn't know many of the lads and that kind of
    stuff can come in to it. So we will only know when Simon does play Test cricket. But from what I have seen of him and what I have heard about him, he has got the character to do that."

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