Sir Alastair Cook said he is "bored" of England captain Joe Root's positive spin on the Test series defeat by the West Indies. The side’s former skipper slammed the England hierarchy as “deluded” and accused them of losing a sense of reality of the current crisis in the red ball format.
Root insisted on looking on the bright side of yet another loss in the Caribbean, and interim coach Paul Collingwood was surprised to see the star batsman under such scrutiny. In response, Cook wrote in his Sunday Times column: “I am a bit bored with all the positive chat because I don't think it was a sense of reality in that changing room.
"All the noise was that 'we've turned a corner and our attitude is brilliant'. Some of that stuff should have been a given. I don't know what's being said behind closed doors but I'm struggling to see as many positives as they are. And is that slightly deluded? The word's been put out there.
