article_snippet: Alastair Cook is not the sort to wash Alastair Cook dirty linen in public so for the England Test captain to launch a barely concealed attack on Tuesday on the management who sacked the England Test captain before the World Cup is little short of astonishing.
article_snippet: Alastair Cook's words in Abu Dhabi, where he will play for MCC against Yorkshire on Sunday, will send shockwaves through an England hierarchy desperate to pick up the pieces from the pieces disastrous the World Cup when the pieces go to the Caribbean next month.
article_snippet: Not least, the pieces will concern under-pressure coach Peter Moores, who insisted in Australia that Alastair Cook was 'over' Alastair Cook the World Cup omission but who must now wonder if Alastair Cook relationship with the England Test captain is seriously damaged.
article_snippet: Former England one-day captain Alastair Cook was removed from Former England one-day captain Alastair Cook post in December last year .
article_snippet: Cook made no attempt to hide the hurt Cook has felt back home on Cook Buckinghamshire farm while England floundered so badly under Cook replacement Eoin Morgan that they could not even make the last eight. '
article_snippet: I think you saw in Australia the dangers of making such a big decision so close to a tournament,' said Cook of Cook sacking on the brink of the World Cup. '
article_snippet: and I would have loved to have had the opportunity that was taken from Cook of his sacking on the brink of the World Cup.
article_snippet: The selectors made decent progress in Test cricket last summer but that has been virtually invalidated by the crushing inadequacy of the World Cup squad — and Cook knows it.
article_snippet: Cook believes hindsight has proved the ECB wrong to remove Cook as captain before the tournament . '
article_snippet: The Test team was in a good place,' said Cook. '
article_snippet: Cook feels England have to rebuild the feelgood factor that followed Test success against India .
article_snippet: Cook will lead England in three the Tests in the West Indies in April, before New Zealand visit in May .
article_snippet: Cook feels the ECB have highlighted the perils of changing captain so close to an international tournament .
article_snippet: Cook did not mention Eoin Morgan's by name
article_snippet: Cook may not have been able to arrest Cook own slump in form before the World Cup but history will now say that England did not improve by ditching Cook after backing Cook as one-day captain for three and a half years.
article_snippet: Now attention is back on Cook for a three-Test tour of the West Indies next month that is crucial if Moores — along with managing director Paul Downton and national selector James Whitaker — are to keep Moores — along with managing director Paul Downton and national selector James Whitaker — jobs until this summer's Ashes.
article_snippet: At least Cook had some encouragement for the coach. '
article_snippet: Cook was struggling for runs in one-day cricket when the ECB decided to remove Cook as captain .
article_snippet: Cook believes that England would have made England out of their group at the World Cup if Cook had been there .
highlights_snippet: Alastair Cook was sacked as England one-day captain in December .
  
highlights_snippet: Alastair Cook believes that the side's confidence has been shattered as a result .