Cricket: "Three different captains in England for three different formats"

As expected ECB (England Cricket Board) announced three different captains for three formats. Andrew Strauss had earlier said that he would step down as England captain for One Day Internationals to prolong her career in tests. On this note ECB has announced Alastair Cook as the new captain for England One Day Internationals. This was on expected lines after Alastair Cook's exceptional form in the recent Ashes against the Australians. Alastair Cook had captained England against a series with Bangladesh and won all the matches and had scored in all matches to top it.

There was another change which ECB announced, that was of T20 International captain. Stuart Broad has been named captain for T20 Internationals. He will replace Paul Collingwood, who will under fire to perform to retain his place in starting XI for atleast T20 Internationals. After being overlooked for One Day Internationals and quitting test matches. This will be first of a kind for Stuart Broad at captaincy level and will improve his chances to succeed one day as the leader in all formats.

So wishing all the three captains the best in their respective formats and hope to see some great cricket coming ahead.

Captain	Format	Replacing
Andrew Strauss	Tests	Retained his Captaincy
Alastair Cook	One Day Internationals	Andrew Strauss
Stuart Broad	T20 Internationals	Paul Collingwood

Cricket: "Oval Test will be one of the greatest Test : Strauss"

England Captain Strauss anticipated that Oval Test will be one of the greatest Test in ashes history. He does know that it is undecided about the destiny of urn.

He said, "I think we're good at being underdogs. We've shown that in the past and I think we can take a lot of confidence from the fact it's 1-1 in the series at the moment."

"It's probably where both teams deserve to be at the moment. There's no reason for us to be negative at all. We got on top of them twice in the series and we need to do that once more." said by Strauss.

He also said that England has learned its lesson from their earlier loss to Australians and raring to beat them at Oval.

Lets see what will happen. But one thing is sure that it will one fascinating match on the cards. Stay tuned for more news on this.