Despite suffering a miserable 4-0 Test drubbing in India
last month, Alastair Cook has made it clear Australia still can’t be written
off ahead of this summer’s Ashes series.
It wasn’t just on the field in India that Australia were
left embarrassed, as head coach, Mickey Arthur’s decision to suspend four
players for failing to submit a feedback report left many conceding this was a
squad in disarray ahead of the Ashes.
The England captain knows his side will go into the first of
back-to-back Ashes series as favourites in many peoples’ eyes, but Cook has
refused to draw too much from Australia’s recent troubles.
Despite Australia’s clear problems going into this summer,
England skipper, Cook, knows that form is not as important going into an Ashes
series as it may be with other series.
"I wouldn't read too much into what happened in India
with Australia. The conditions were very different to what we are going to
experience in England,” said Cook.
"They are going to be a very tough side to beat”, Cook
said to cricket betting news pundits. “The Ashes is a unique event so hopefully
it will bring the best out of both sides. The favourites stuff is all off the
field. You can read all you want about that sort of stuff but it is
irrelevant."
While Cook couldn’t really say anything else, there is no
denying that this has to be the weakest Australia squad an England side will
have faced in a good few years.
England might not be in the best of form themselves, a point
attested to in the betting news, but it would still be hard to picture anything
other than Cook’s men retaining the Ashes by the time the fifth and final Test
finishes in August.
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