article_snippet.sent: England can only hope England Test captain has benefited indeed, because Captain Alastair Cook can expect to have precious little time for the remainder of this year to regain that sort of perspective.
article_snippet.sent: Captain Alastair Cook has had a taste already of what is to come, first of all in three Caribbean Tests this month and then a decidedly awkward assignment at home to New Zealand, before England somehow try this summer to regain the Ashes lost 5-0 under his captaincy in 2013-14.
article_snippet.sent: Captain Alastair Cook .
article_snippet.sent: Captain Alastair Cook addresses the media at Warner Park in Basseterre ahead of England's Caribbean Tests .
article_snippet.sent: It was Cook himself, however, who helpfully pointed out those facts will be irrelevant when he next walks out to open his last Test innings for he country.
article_snippet.sent: Cook himself smiles while fielding during England's Test series with India last summer .
article_snippet.sent: Cook bats during the fifth Test against India at The Oval last year .
article_snippet.sent: The wonder is whether Cook himself can clear Cook himself mind sufficiently to defend Cook himself wicket against the new ball, or dispatch a wide one.
article_snippet.sent: Cook himself waved what Cook himself hoped would be a brief goodbye to Moores, less than a week before turning 30 on Christmas Day, still apparently full of optimism - despite an unsuccessful tour of Sri Lanka - that Cook himself would be retained to complete the task Cook himself had been set three-and-a-half years earlier, to lead England to the World Cup.
article_snippet.sent: Cook himself struggled for form playing for the MCC against Yorkshire in Abu Dhabi last month .
article_snippet.sent: Cook himself will hope England can regain the Ashes when they face Australia later this summer .
article_snippet.sent: The tinsel could barely have been in place around Cook himself, wife Alice and
article_snippet.sent: before Cook himself discovered Cook himself would be staying on well into the new year after all.
article_snippet.sent: Back to work last week, after England's World Cup embarrassment without Cook himself and off Cook himself own bat after those two brief innings for the MCC against champion county Yorkshire in Abu Dhabi, Cook himself could do little else than try to impart a little positive spin on events. '
article_snippet.sent: Cook himself pictured in conversation with England head coach Peter Moores during a nets session on Sunday .
article_snippet.sent: Cook himself takes part in a fielding drill at Warner Park in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis . '
article_snippet.sent: Encouraged or otherwise by that, Cook himself is experienced enough to know - especially after England's disappointments and struggles since they won they last home Ashes series - that success will be hard-earned and is no foregone conclusion.
article_snippet.sent: Reminded of the chairman's synopsis, Cook himself said: 'Anyone who has to cross over the line and face 90 mph bowling from Kemar Roach will have a different view of that. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Captain Alastair Cook was axed as England's one-day captain, missing awful World Cup .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Captain Alastair Cook will now seek to restore some national pride in West Indies in Saint Kitts .
  