...bowlers battled against the left-handed batsmen in the series against England earlier this year. The two openers especially, Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss, caused some problems. The Aussies also have three top order left-handed batsmen in Matthew Hayden,...
...when he launched Harbhajan Singh over long on. They changed their opening partnership once again, this time recalling Alastair Cook to replace Ian Bell, but England still failed to find the attacking impetus at the top of the order to rival India's strokemakers. Both...
...Anderson for the day-nighter in search of their first win in the seven-match series. They included left-handed opener Alastair Cook for his first game of the series and recalled fast bowler Steve Harmison after he sat out the previous two outings. India also...
...up the order to number three and showed the way to other batsmen. The new opening combination of Ravi Bopara and Alastair Cook did not click as the latter gave his wicket to Zaheer Khan with a drive to point where he was caught by Yuvraj Singh in the sixth...
...posted 270 for four wickets in the fifth one dayer against India in Cuttack on Wednesday. Put into bat, England sent Alastair Cook (11) to open the innings with Ravi Bopara (24) but the opening stand yielded only 33. Coming at number three, Pietersen engaged...
...being put into bat at the Barabati Stadium. Four successive defeats had convinced the tourists to make changes with Alastair Cook replacing Ian Bell at the top of the order and Steve Harmison returning to take over from Lancashire seamer James Anderson, who...
...recovery as their new opening partnership failed to provide the impetus in the first 10 overs of powerplay, with Alastair Cook replacing Ian Bell to partner Ravi Bopara at the top of the order. Lancashire seamer James Anderson was also dropped to allow the...
...recovery after their new opening partnership failed to provide the impetus in the first 10 overs of powerplay with Alastair Cook replacing Ian Bell to partner Ravi Bopara at the top of the order. Bopara was getting frustrated at his scoring rate and gave a...
...and Rohit Sharma coming in place of Munaf Patel and Gautam Gambhir. England too made couple of changes with opener Alastair Cook and pacer Steve Harmison making the cut for the fifth ODI. Ian Bell and James Anderson have been left out. India have won seven...
...tourists changed their batting line-up in an attempt to give themselves greater impetus at the top of the order with Alastair Cook recalled at the expense of Ian Bell - dropped after 35 successive matches. Lancashire seamer James Anderson was also dropped...