Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
Regretably, Cooke. Possibly Broad if it comes to pass that he really is scared of pace bowling now, OK he's a good to great bowler but we have lots of good bowlers who can score runs, he needs to stay great (if that makes sense)

Edit: and England cricket matters to me as much as The Rams do. Boycott summed it up today in response to someone saying, with 9 wickets down, 'the Ashes are almost over'. His response was 'The Ashes are never over'.....
Share your frustration, but Cook will only be 33 next summer and who can replace him? Broad, and Anderson too for that matter, still have enough left in the tank to be very effective in English conditions, imo, for another season or two and again, who is there coming through to replace them?

All a bit predictable in Oz...especially after the Stokes fiasco which may materialise as being handled incredibly badly...but our batsmen have always been prone to fragile collapse and our bowlers simply don’t have what is needed in Australian conditions i.e. raw pace and hostility.