I think you saw in Australia the dangers of making such a big decision so close to the tournament. I don’t know what’s gone on on that tour, and I can only speak from watching a little bit from afar, but it did look like the lads were shell-shocked from the first two games. That’s when you need real leadership to help steer you through that.
The kind of leadership that saw England to five series losses in a row. When their manager said that one of the reasons Pietersen was sacked was because Cook couldn't stand up to him.
I was fully confident we would get out of our group, and from there, you’ve got to win three games in a row – that’s how this World Cup has worked.
He's just written the future here. England got rid of him because that sort of scenario wasn't plausible. Cook needs a Piers Morgan figure to say this stuff for him, because it makes him look ridiculous.
I can’t speak about what’s gone on there in depth, but you always back yourself, and I would have loved to have had the opportunity that was taken away from me. The selectors made that decision because they thought it was the best for English cricket. Hindsight has probably proved them wrong, but now it’s very easy to say that
There's the entitlement. He failed. It would have been better to keep Cook, he thinks. They kept him too long. His sacking was a desperate gamble brought on by the desperation of the situation.
The Test team] was in a good place. I wouldn’t say all of it [confidence] has been [broken], but a hell of a lot of it has been. You have to remember that it is a different format and you get a change, but all teams are grouped under the same English cricket umbrella, and we can’t be naive enough to think that it’s not,” he admitted
The Test side is a basket case. He just got whitewashed in Australia. He lost his country's first ever home series to Sri Lanka, who were a struggling team. He can only remember the one thing that went well, the second half of the India series. This is politics, just repeating your success, and denying the failare. He's just created a schism right down the middle of the England international set up. And he's complaining that the ODI side has damaged his chances. How about how Morgan had to deal with the dire situation Cook left.
I always say that everybody's right.