Cook wants series whitewash
February 19, 2012 09:29:05 UK
England are eyeing a one-day whitewash against Pakistan after sealing the series with a nine-wicket win on Saturday.
Alastair Cook's side bowled Pakistan out for 222 and made their target with 76 runs to spare. Kevin Pietersen answered his critics with an unbeaten century while Cook made 80. England are now 8/11 to win the fourth and final match on Tuesday while Pakistan are at 11/10.
We've come here to win every game in the series.
Alastair Cook
Cook praised a fantastic performance from the whole team, who have put their whitewash in the Test series firmly behind them.
"Our bowlers were outstanding, we may have been slow to start with but to keep them to 220 on that wicket was a fantastic effort," he said.
"I thought everybody contributed with the ball, 220 was quite a long way below par.
"We'll obviously enjoy it tonight, winning the series, but we've come here to win every game in the series and hopefully we can come back here in three days' time and put in a really good performance again."
Pietersen, who is 3/1 to be England's top batsman in the fourth game, was relieved to have been able to make a significant contribution to the victory after not playing at his best in the first two matches.
He admitted: "It was nice to get some (runs), I said yesterday that I'm not at a stage where I don't know where my next run is coming from, I'm just getting out in silly little ways.
"I'm always getting starts and then getting myself out, so with a little bit of fortune I was lucky enough to get to three figures today."
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