koksmayu Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Kevin Pietersen has marked his anticipated England comeback by boldly predicting that Alastair Cook has the ability to challenge Sachin Tendulkar's world-record number of Test runs. Tendulkar, with 15837 Test runs, is more than 2000 ahead of his nearest rival, Ricky Ponting - and he is not quite finished yet. Cook remains 8000 adrift, although he has regularly matched Tendulkar at the same stage of his career, leaving Pietersen no doubt the record is within his compass. Pietersen, who is expected to return for England on Thursday in the second T20 international against New Zealand , has always freely admitted that he has little knowledge of cricket history, which will be a relief to Cook, who has enough problems to deal with in managing England's Ashes campaign without being tipped to surpass the most celebrated living batsman. Pietersen's accolade for Cook came in the second part of a pre-recorded interview with Darren Gough on Talksport - an interview which, in protest at the English media's coverage of his controversial career, he has billed as his only pronouncement of the summer. "His first series was against India away and we beat India," Pietersen said of Cook. "He's done exceptionally well, his cricket just keeps getting better and better. "For me he's the right man to lead England, he's doing a great job for us and he will continue to get better and better and break every record anyone's ever set, certainly in the English game. He's on target to go for Tendulkar's numbers, if you look at the numbers and look at his age." Pietersen also offered glowing praise for another colleague who is tipped to have a long and fruitful England career in Joe Root - not that he was overly aware who the young Yorkshireman joining England on tour for the first time in India last winter was. "I never knew of him, I never heard of him, because when you're on the scene and young players come you just don't," he said. "But I knew that he was going to be good when he walked out to bat in Nagpur in his first Test match." By the time Root made his debut England were 2-1 up with one Test to play and needed to avoid defeat to win their first series in India for 28 years. "I was batting and… we just didn't want to let India back into it at all and he walked out and - just his face walking towards me for 20 metres - I thought this kid's going to be a flipping superstar. "It was just the confidence that he walked out to bat with in his debut Test match in India, two spinners bowling, from each end, we'd just lost a wicket or a couple of wickets and he walked out with a smile on his face, and went 'All right lad, you ok, you're playing well there.' And I was like, 'Mate! I've played 90 odd Test matches and I don't walk out like that.' But it's brilliant for English cricket, absolutely brilliant."
Captain of Bhangra Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 I've thought for a while he has a good chance. Certainly a better chance than anyone else. Obviously hope it doesn't happen though...
vvvslaxman Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Anyone hoping for Sachin's retirement from Test.. .. will be disappointed now lol
FischerTal Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 it depends on the quality of bowling that will come out in the next couple of years. We will see this summer how Patto makes Cook his bunny :ohyeah:
vvvslaxman Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Cook's biggest advantage is temperament.. He will be happy with even score of 3 runs in 50 balls.. His strategy is tire the bowlers out and score of off them. Also plays very good percentage cricket. You need a bit of skill to bother him as he is temperamentally very good. He is a good lbw candidate though. If you plug his scoring areas on the on side and bowl full there is a good chance upfront.
FischerTal Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Just do this :agree: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVy-DtUw1s]How to bowl to Alastair Cook - YouTube[/ame]
kubrickian Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 He has been having a dream run lately for the past couple of years or so. If you look at the early part of his career, he was basically an average batsman with an average around 40. It would be hard to keep this form going for a longer period of time.
SLICKR392 Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Fails against quality attack. He is not gonna get close to SRT's record. KP might probably outscore Cook.
koksmayu Posted June 26, 2013 Author Posted June 26, 2013 If he wants to beat the god his all innings must be killer innings and has to stay out of any injury and out of form Which sounds like impossible for him
maniac Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Has a good chance with the amount of tests England plays...I mean 10 test Ashes really? Don't know about the runs but he will certainly exceed the number of tests played by SRT before he retires which works in his favor. India played a very few tests in the 90's comparitively :((
putrevus Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Last couple of years which Cook had is hard to replicate, I don't think Sachin ever had the run which Cook has in last couple of years. He is just rock solid nothing bothers him, let us see if this ODI stint will be his downfall.He started to look like he is getting Gambhiritis poking outside off stump in odi to get singles which signaled the end of Gambhir.
FischerTal Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 why :((? couldnt his parents have fecked a month later? :sniffle:
SLICKR392 Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 couldnt his parents have fecked a month later? :sniffle: I've got a reply for this but it would sound awkward. :P
FischerTal Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 I've got a reply for this but it would sound awkward. :P :poink:
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