Quote: Saddened! "This series so far just shows what being patient with players and coaches does in sport. Look at Cook, a player many were calling for to be removed from the England squad. He's looked terrible in recent years and I've seen many a test where he's been walking consistently on low figures. But now he looks unbeatable.'"
Yes - but when you show patience with players, then the coach gets criticised for always picking "the same old faces". To change sports look at rugby league - Brian Noble was always accused of having his favourites, players who picked themselves, harder to get out of the team than in it. We had a team under Noble which got sporadic successes against the Aussies, and was generally not too far behind them, but fans were saying we should be giving other guys a go.
In the last couple of years every Tom Dick and Harry has had a run out for England and we are miles behind them....
kind of sums up the Aussies attitude to sport in my experience, if they aint doing any good they don't want to know. 
