Please Cook. just go. you should have went at the end of the sri-lanka series.
Englands performance are getting worse not better.

I'd be very surprised if cook resigned before the endof the series....

Only question now is who to replace him with. For me its one of Broad, Anderson or Root (although may be too young).

We need a different approach though afridi. Nothing will ever change with cook as captain
hes never been good enough as a leader.
Problem is leaders. there all drones.. got rid of the arrogance in KP and gone back to the 1990s attitude.

If you see where am coming from. cooks the kind of captain that will remove a 4th slip and put him to gully and the ball will go through 4th slit.
He will always make the wrong calls in the field. he chose tremlett for the series down under for the short stuff approach.. Chri tremmlet didn't do anything last summer.. that was a mind boggling call..

I said it before and will say it again.. They forced Andrew strauss out a year maybe 2 years to early. he was in poor form. But always looked like he could score runs.. Cook doesn't look like he will be able to bat for 2 hours.

Cook's captaincy has been fine this series. It's his batting that is the problem. I don't see anyone in County cricket worthy of replacing him.

The problem is we have an average team where virtually all of the senior players are under performing. I don't think replacing them will do the new guys any good. Now is the time for patience

cooks captaincy as been fine? whats with the bowling short in the first innings on a green wicket??

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Cook's captaincy has been fine this series. It's his batting that is the problem. I don't see anyone in County cricket worthy of replacing him.

The problem is we have an average team where virtually all of the senior players are under performing. I don't think replacing them will do the new guys any good. Now is the time for patience
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Fine its been truly pathetic. Poor field placings, men on the ropes to tail enders and then asking his bowlers to bowl short for some reason.

Meh. Can't be bothered with the Cook bashing now.

Young captain taking over a poor team and having a terrible time with the bat. Obviously struggling, but there were no complaints when he was captaining to a win in India and thrashing the Aussies last summer.

He'll prove everyone like he has throughput his career

Something's not right and his form has gone. For me he just needs to get away, go back to the counties like Bell did and score runs. Prior or Bell take over for the rest of the series, bringing Compton back in to open.

Get him out of the firing line.

Of course we could still win tomorrow and then everything's rosy

Lets look at some of cooks captaincy decisions ok?
First test of the ashes summer.. he goes back to finn in the first test after he was slogged and it nearly cost England.
Away to NZ our whole approach to the likes of bruce martn. who is now finished at test cricket was pathetic.
At home to NZ.. knowing there was weather coming cook refused to enforce the follow on. the game would have been finished 2 days early.
That mind set just shows you how cook goes about his captaincy.. theres no mental urgency and its started to back fire. we have become to weak..

I have a bit of sympathy for cook as this is the worst england in the last 12 years or so. He's not got a good coach in moores. The senior players are letting him down. As per usual bell in a crisis bottles it, broad has bowled badly, prior has been worse than abysmal behind the stumps and has got to go. The choices are jimmy who would get it for me or root who is not ready. Is there any captain in County cricket who is good enough to step up? Changes must be made in the team, out go prior, broad, bell, stokes. In butler, finn, vince and kerrigan. Anderson capt , cook stays in team. Would bring back kp and trott too but those 2 would not happen.

The establishment have egg on their faces well and truly but being the establishment Cook will be safe. With his bright eye's stare no doubt he will once again state from his bunker that he is the man to take England forward. Now having said that, English cricket really does need to change. A captain should be just that, on the field of play and in the dressing room (albeit after the manager/coach has had his/her say), a captain should be picked from within the squad of players on form are picked. A captain cannot ever be made captain and then have a hand in the selection process, by definition it is then practically impossible to drop him.

Bell should be mentioned too! His poor form is hidden slightly by Cook, I haven't missed it though.

Why is Stokes in the team with his recent run of batting form?

What is wrong with picking Jordan?

Prior should now retire and let either Bairstow or Buttler take over.

Moeen has been under bowled.

Cook`s poor batting form appears to be affecting his captaincy.

Bell is in poor form, though the pitch did him 2nd innings.

The only players showing any sort of decent form are Ballance, Root, Moeen, Anderson and Plunkett, Broad has been average and the rest poor.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Cook must resign the captaincy, or have it taken away from him. I'd call up James Foster as captain/keeper, obviously dropping Prior as well. Drop Moeen (harsh, I know, but someone has to go) and bring in Gareth Batty as proper spinner making the lineup:

Cook
Robson
Bell
Root
Ballance
Stokes
Foster (C/K)
Broad
Plunkett/Jordan (depending on pitch)
Batty
Anderson

Stokes has bowled fairly well in fairness. Bowlers should be picked on bowling form not batting, which is why Jordan was dropped. I'd still bring him back for the next test though, but for Broad whose injuries seem to be catching up with him. I'd probably also take out Prior for James Foster - he's a keeper captain who can actually keep, unlike Buttler and Prior. Lyth or Hales would also be possibilities to replace Cook and Bell, but one doesn't want to lose too much experience and make too many changes all in one go. Robson also hasn't convinced me so far, but hopefully will prove worth persevering with.

I don't buy the hype around Hales. His first class form is average and his FC average is only 36. James Vince is having a phenomenal season for Hampshire and should be considered long before Hales. If Cook were to be dropped, Adam Lyth Should come in as a replacement. He is right at the very top of the CC run table.

He's got experience for England in T20 and has been brilliant this season in the longer format. It would just be nice to have a run scorer at the top end instead of a slow grinder. Robson's FC average was also only about 35 but got a call up on the strength of a good county season.

But I agree Lyth would be my first choice. Probably would end up with Carberry though.

he hasn't been brilliant in the longer format. He made one really good hundred... and that's it. Other than that he's been average. Robson's FC average upon call up was 42/43, not 35. Vince, on the other hand has made several outstanding hundreds, including a 240 (of about 240 balls) against Essex, as well as being the highest runscorer in the CC overall this year.

Carberry should be nowhere near the England squad this year. He is in very average nick.

Something we discussed during the ashes series was the need for a mindset change in the England setup. This hasn't happened - Moores & Downton provide more of the same clueless management. Cook himself has been dropped right in it and hasn't a clue what to do next. The whole setup is a shambles. Dropping KP was never going to work and I would be surprised if dropping Cook would work either.

We need a Darren Lehman but don't have one.

It's funny how the England ship has sunk so fast.

Before SA toured last time England and it's fans were riding high, Anderson was the best bowler in the world (or at least the most skilful...remember those articles?), Cook was the best batsman in the world and would surely break Sachin's runs record (remember those calculations?)....England also had two bowling attacks with each being better than the best attack any other country could put together.....if you want to chuckle go back and read the articles from that time.

Anyway, think a lot can be learnt as while joking about the above England were certainly a good team with a lot of options. Train smash of note how it got to here

Mmaaxx,

I do remember those. Whilst cooks dip in form can be attributed to his captaincy, what excuse do Anderson, Broad and bell have? A&B have struggled to wrap up the Indian and lankan tail. Time for the ecb to admit they got it horribly wrong and bring back KP.