Captain Calamity! Press turn on England skipper Alastair Cook

England on brink of series defeat to New Zealand - but at least we're not as bad as the Aussies

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THE HONEYMOON is well and truly over for England cricket captain Alastair Cook. Since replacing Andrew Strauss as skipper last summer, the Essex batsman has been enjoying a blissful relationship with the British press, winning plaudits as his team won a Test series in India for the first time in 28 years.

But with England facing a humiliating series defeat to New Zealand, the tabloids have turned on the golden boy. "Captain Calamity!" is the Daily Mail's headline, while The Sun says that recent comparisons between Cook and the great Australian Don Bradman may have been premature. In fact in recent weeks, says the paper, "Cook has batted more like Donald Trump and taken a decision that even Donald Duck might have avoided".

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