Cook's recipe for success in India
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Daniel Norcross talks to Alastair Cook about what it takes to play cricket in India. Cook captained England to a test series victory in India in 2012, which is still the last time a visiting team won a test series there. Alastair talks about what England do differently to other nations visiting India, where Alastair ranks India as the toughest place to go, and being in a hotel overlooking the Himalayas with 2000 waiting outside for the team.
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| 0:37.7 | on BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts I'm Daniel Norcross. England's men are |
| 0:55.1 | trying to win a test series in India, arguably one of the toughest assignments in |
| 0:58.6 | world cricket. Unique conditions, formidable opponents. Batting in India is like no other place on earth. |
| 1:06.1 | So who better to ask about how you go about such a tough assignment than Sir Alice |
| 1:10.8 | Acur, a command who's played 13 tests there, scored 500s in India, averages over 50. |
| 1:16.4 | Most people seem to struggle with India, Alistair. |
| 1:19.5 | You relish it. |
| 1:20.5 | Oh, thank you very much. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm not sure I relish you but I think fundamentally when they take a nice |
| 1:26.4 | slow wicket they take out they take out one of my main ways of getting out which is |
| 1:30.5 | nicked off it's probably why score runs. It's also the first |
| 1:35.1 | pace you played. It is actually. Well let's start with that because your |
| 1:39.3 | introduction to test cricket is an extraordinary one. You're in the Caribbean and you've flown |
| 1:44.4 | which to the Caribbean is the other side of the world to India at very short notice. |
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