airliebird9 wrote:
Cook does. KP is not under pressure, the selectors will carry him all summer (if they have to) to give him some time in the middle to regain his form as they know they need him to win the Ashes. Not so for Cook. With Bell, Trott and now Morgan having made test runs this summer and Strauss and Colly nailed on, Cook is the one who needs runs badly.
Cook seems to be one of those players who is a guaranteed selection irrespective of how badly he's playing (see also Paul Collingwood when he had a horror patch - was it two years ago at home?). The England selectors clearly see him as the successor/backup to Strauss as captain, so they're not going to dump him even if he doesn't look like he knows which end of the bat to hold.
You can only pick on past performance for so long before you have to start giving opportunities to players who are genuinely in form like Bopara and Adam Lyth.
