After probably the worst England performance ever, I'm just astonished by the number of so-called experts who are insistent that Cook should be retained as skipper, despite all the evidence pointing to him being totally unsuited to the task.
To judge a cricket captain, you have to ask 3 questions -
1. Is he able to motivate others around him with his captaincy and decision-making?
2. Is he able to change the momentum of a game with his on-field decision-making and to do so with sufficient good timing?
3. Will the captaincy have an positive impact on his own individual performance?
Now, if a captain can answer all 3 of those questions in the positive, then you have a great skipper - Steve Waugh, for most of his reign as Aussie skipper.
Answer 2 positively and you have a good skipper - Mike Brearley fits this bill.... For one positive, you are talking about somebody riding on the tails of a good team, like Ponting did.
Cook, however, doesn't answer a single positive - He is the most incompetent skipper I have ever seen lead England, and that includes Flintoff and Chris Cowdrey - To imagine he can hang onto the job is downright insulting.
Just how poor a job does somebody have to do to be fired??..... Accusations of a click, or a old boy's club, would be quite appropriate if, somehow, Cook remains as skipper.
Personally, I'd look to Broad to take over, ship out some of the dead wood (Anderson, Pieterson, Prior), and look to bed in some younger players in preparation for the next Ashes.
