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England Test skipper, Alastair Cook has taken offence to Pakistan\u2019s military-inspired celebration at Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground after winning the first Test. Pakistan came into this Test match under a lot of pressure as this is the same ground where they lost their respect and 3 of their players were banned for spot-fixing. But they gave a very spirited performance and defeated England on day 4 of the Test match.\u00a0\u00a0After the win,\u00a0Younis Khan\u00a0had lined up his squad on the outfield to do salutes and push-ups in honour of the soldiers who trained them during a pre-tour camp back home on which a frustrated Cook \u2013 who also branded his batsmen \u2018naive\u2019 for their failure to deal with leg-spinner\u00a0Yasir Shah.<\/p>\n
This is what Alastair Cook said about Pakistan\u2019s military-inspired celebration:<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>,\u00a0 he said, \u2018It\u2019s never nice to lose at Lord\u2019s and see the opposition like they were at the end. \u2018We will use that as motivation. I did not take offence, but certainly at that moment in time it is not pleasant for the first 20 minutes when you have just lost a game of cricket. They are entitled to do what they want. Obviously it is united them and it shows what a challenge we have got in the next game. But the cricketing gods\u2026Cook\u2019s comments, left ominously dangling in the air, came after his former England team-mate Tim Bresnan tweeted his reaction to the Pakistani press-ups: \u2018That might bite you, boys. Carma [sic] catches up with you eventually. It did with the Sprinkler.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" England Test skipper, Alastair Cook has taken offence to Pakistan\u2019s military-inspired celebration at Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground after winning the first Test. Pakistan came into this Test match under a lot of pressure as this is the same ground where they lost their respect and 3 of their players were banned for spot-fixing. But they gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,70,8,170,140],"tags":[807,10,1300,1391,867,97,1265,408,1495],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket-analysis","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-alastair-cook","tag-cricket","tag-england-vs-pakistan","tag-engvpak","tag-engvspak","tag-misbah-ul-haq","tag-pakistan-tour-of-england-2016","tag-sports","tag-younis-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}