Former England captain Michael Vaughan and ex-spinner Graeme Swann said that Alastair Cook must be sacked as the One-Day International (ODI) captain for England to win the 2015 World Cup. Both Vaughan and Swann feel that the selectors are picking the ODI side on the basis of performance in Tests and that should stop immediately.
“We pick one-day teams on Test form. Test form has made it easier for the selectors to have a more conservative selection than most people want to see,” Swann was quoted as saying by BBC’s Test Match Special. ”Alastair Cook is the most stubborn man in the world. He has almost backed himself into a corner where he’s got to carry on. I don’t think we’ve got a cat in hell’s chance of winning the World Cup.”
Vaughan, who captained England in the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean, feels the team needs some big strikers up the order. ”If you look at the last five England captains, Mike Atherton, Nasser Hussain, myself, Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook, we are all Test players. We were all brought up playing the forward defensive and leaving it around the off stump. Occupying the crease, playing for a bit of time, and we were all one-day captains.”
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