‘It was all starting to get a bit out of control,' said Warne. ‘I asked for his number and I texted him to see if we could have five minutes on the phone. We spoke for about an hour about lots of different things. I had my say, he had his say. He told me how he felt and I told him how I felt about certain things. It was good to clear the air and it was amicable. It was just good to speak about stuff other than cricket as well.'
Cook's tactics were labelled ‘dreadful' and ‘unfathomable' while former England opener Geoffrey Boycott said his side ‘completely lost the plot' as centurion Ajinkya Rahane helped India add 150 runs in the evening session and England resorted to repeatedly bowling bouncers.
The England bowlers were more to blame for India wriggling off the hook on day one at Lord's but Cook's captaincy was still criticised by Boycott and former England captains Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss.
Boycott said: ‘As a batsman, I start thinking that I'm going to get out if I get four good balls an over. England couldn't manage that. They could only do it once an over. They then lost the plot when Liam Plunkett went round the wicket and started to bang it in. Cook is not going to make it as a tactical captain - the lads might like him in the dressing room, but not as a tactical captain. Sorry.'
