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Alastair Cook an brilliant leader: Andy Flower

Cook an excellent leader: Flower

England leader coach Andy Flower feels the middle age of their One-day side's captain Alastair Cook will establish imperative to team's achievement in the approaching series against India.

England team practice while the up
coming series against India 

England will take off out to India Monday with Alastair Cook looking to do again the team's victory at home. England plays five ODI against India start on Oct 8 at Hyderabad.

Alastair Cook's put in the side at one spot was questioned, but he proved his critics mistaken with creative scoring this year and then steered his wall to a remarkable series success over India.

Andy Flower called Alastair Cook an outstanding captain to lead the team.

He has been brilliant as a head and grown in self-assurance,' Andy Flower was quote as saying in Daily Express.

'On the tour of Bangladesh, when he captained whereas Andrew Strauss was resting, he grow and academic a lot and I'd say we have seen comparable growth this summer.

'It's always pleasant to see someone grow in assurance. It's terrible to see anyone lose self-assurance in any walk of life.

'So the differing, seeing someone grow in self-assurance, is a actually nice thing, mainly for us as coaches, ' he thought.