article_snippet.sent: National selector James Whitaker had called Cook "our exceptional leader"; Paul Downton, the ECB's new managing director, hailed Peter Moores as the "outstanding coach of Peter Moores generation".
article_snippet.sent: Peter Moores presided over a disastrous World Cup but was labelled 'the outstanding coach of Peter Moores generation' by the ECB's new managing director Paul Downton .
article_snippet.sent: Trouble was, Alastair Cook had become more than just a cricketer: cast by Alastair Cook employers in the role of latter-day saint to Pietersen's fallen angel, Alastair Cook was now an article of faith.
article_snippet.sent: Giles Clarke (the ECB chairman) even suggested the Cooks were "very much the sort of people we want the England captain and Giles Clarke (the ECB chairman) family to be" which was all well and good but couldn't stop Giles Clarke (the ECB chairman) edging behind.
article_snippet.sent: Downton, Whitaker and Moores were all bound up with Moores fate.
article_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook had to succeed, as much for others as Alastair Cook.