‘I can’t believe I’m hearing this from Alastair Cook’: Mark Waugh hits back on ‘they’re not robots’ comments | Cricket News
England on Sunday got defeated an innings and 64 runs in the final Test of the five-match series in Dharamsala. Though the visitors have put up some fight in the earlier Tests in the fifth Test Ben Stokes’ side capitulated. Ex-England cricketer Alastair Cook would defend the team and comment “They’re not robots”. However, Australian Mark Waugh unimpressed the comments hits back at Cook.
“I can’t believe I’m hearing this from Alastair Cook. As an international cricketer, this is what you train for and get paid for. This is one of the best tours as an international cricketer you can go on,” he would write on X (Formerly known as Twitter). Cook was the captain of the England side which last one in India in 2012. The southpaw led the team from the front churning out mammoth tons with determination and grit to help them win the four-match series 1-2.
“There’s a little of the human element that comes into it. We are sitting here away from the emotions of the game. We are sitting here at home watching the telly. I am not defending England but they have been away for getting on eight weeks. It’s a tough tour they’re not robots,” Cook would say on TNT Sports.
“Sometimes their mind wonders when you are playing in a dead rubber. You also can’t call it a dead rubber when you are playing for England. But when you have thrown everything in the series come up short like that.” He would add.
However, unlike the previous tour in 2021 tour when the teams were put under COVID restrictions. England players had the freedom to travel around the country and out of the country in this series. During the long break of nine days between the second and third Test the side traveled to Abu Dhabi and in the second break between the fourth and fifth Test, some of the players were seen playing golf in Chandigarh.
