Alastair Cook promise to remain as England captain for World Cup 2015

Sri Lanka won the series by 5-2; England Cricket Team skipper Alastair Cook says he has no intention of walking far from the Britain captainship.

Cook hasn’t scored a world hundred in his last fifty nine ODI and take a look at innings combined, scored thirty two as European country unrest to associate 87-run defeat within the seventh and final one-day international, in Colombo.

England can declare their team for next month’s the tri-series against Australia and India on Saturday, which is able to kind the premise of the party of February’s World Cup.

ECB manager Paul Downton told that it'd be “high-risk” to alter the captain thus near a serious tournament – apparently saving Cook from the sack, and therefore the current skipper says he's determined to hold on given the possibility.

"You dirt yourself off and you come back. I am captain of my country, affirmative it hasn't gone run out the last twelve months with my batting within the one-day game, however I’d feel terribly wrong to run away.

If that call gets taken out of my hands then I actually have to carry my hands up and say I have never been adequate however till that moment I am going to do what I continually do," added  Cook. "I'll work implausibly laborious. I am still implausibly hungry to try to it."

He said: "No one has any divine right to play for European country, and my performances this year within the one-day game haven't been adequate. If the choice went that method, then i am unable to do an excessive amount of concerning it.

"I haven't scored the runs i would prefer to have - and that we haven't won the amount of games i would prefer to have. Thus if that happens, I will don't have any complaints. However it is not been for an absence of effort, or (being) willing to do to boost.

Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawarene played their last ODI in home country. So, Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews paid tribute.

"The service they need rendered over the past 15-16 years has been unbelievable. The encouragement, the steering they need given to all or any folks has been superb."

Sri Lanka were thrashed 5-0 by Bharat earlier within the year however Mathews same he was affected with however his squad responded against European country.

"We've all compete pretty smart cricket within the last number of weeks. When the method we tend to fared in Bharat, we tend to all had to drag our socks up. i assumed all the boys responded bright.