Cook helmet stance gives ECB headache

England wary of being drawn into a power struggle with unwanted Alastair Cook before the summer Test series against the separation of Sri Lanka and Pakistan after they ignored the new regulations by wearing a helmet on an old-fashioned, who failed to comply with the new safety standards.
However, Cook's insistence that he should be the final arbiter of safety puts the ECB in a delicate position as it seeks to impose the adoption of modern helmet design in all parts of the game from the first class.
Eyes will be on the next championship match against Essex, Sussex in Hove, starting on Sunday, and as long as England captain is still loyal to the old design, it is likely that the insurgency will be extended to more tennis possessing similar doubts.
Cook the text ignored during the opening Championship match against Essex at Chelmsford Gloucestershire - preferring to stick a badge on his helmet Essex, England old, dating back to the 2013 design is not compatible with the latest British Safety Standard BS 7928: 13.
New design of the helmets and the presence of a narrow gap between the peak and grille and is adjustable on each side, which reduces the likelihood of the ball burst through the opening.
Unless a new helmet Cook found it comfortable with and said he was able to make the change and that he had already tried many of the manufacturers in an attempt so far failed to find a helmet and agreed that feels gives him the line of vision interruption.
Although Cook has not yet explained his reluctance to use a new helmet publicly, he has reserved his easy and talked, among other things, with the director of England cricket, Andrew Strauss. Territory, Essex, is believed to sympathize with his predicament.
He received immediate support from his Essex and England colleague Ravi Bopara, who was critical of the lack of flexibility of the new design.
Bopara told Sky Sports News: "I understand where the next to Cookie Due to the safety aspect, with all that has happened ... and said we have to wear helmets that meet the standard guidelines.
"But it is difficult for players to change the helmets like this, because you [get] used to wear a helmet certain you are satisfied - and you have your mask as wide as you want.
"But the problem with the new helmets you can not move masks - you've just got to look at the hole that is there sometimes, that the tape, which passes through you can get in the way."
Cook, far from being indifferent to his safety, and conducted serious talks with colleagues of England about the risks versus benefits reward new designs. Although no batsman could be seen ever themselves safe and injury, he was one of the most decisive players on the short ball in the cricket world. Anything disturbed by this provision fraction of a second - like the suspicion that he was losing the ball in flight - will be obliged to have a detrimental effect.
So Cook sees himself - however unintentionally - a boy prospective poster for personal freedom and, assuming his search for a helmet satisfactory still unrewarded and feel that he is not obliged to comply, the ECB left in the unfortunate position of any need to call him by the disciplinary committee, or to respect his wishes and vision of the new policy immediately undermined by the England test captain.
Such concerns affect players of all standards and the fact that helmets produced mass in a limited number of sizes, while the human face comes in many different forms do not seem to be an argument for the grille that can be adjusted to a certain extent even without taking personal preference into consideration.
And contact the ECB Cook officials on Thursday to remind him of the new regulations after the suffering of inquiries from within the game for his decision.
A spokesman for the European Central Bank and the Times said on Friday: "I put these rules, even after extensive consultations with professional cricket players' association, and given all the England players last reminder of the importance of this issue earlier this week."
The rulers in Chelmsford, Jeff Evans and Michael Gough, aware that Cook was used as it is now, for all intents and purposes, a helmet is illegal, but in spite of reports to the contrary are not empowered to impose new regulations to deny him from the field.
I can only insist that the helmet of the type worn always against all types of bowling. If a player wearing a helmet is not compatible, they can inform the matter to the European Central Bank or even refer the case to the disciplinary committee Cricket (CDC).
European Central Bank, to recognize its responsibility to maximize the safety of the players, the imposition of new regulations helmet last November after a number of annoying, high-level events, including a blow to the eye that ended with Craig Kieswetter career and a broken nose for England bowler quick Stuart Broad in a test against India.
But an expression of concern about the practice of the new designs - and not only by the cook, but by others who may follow suit - is likely to put pressure on the European Central Bank to allow the old helmets to be used until another period of research and thinking and implemented. In fact it is the cook, of all people, who were arrested in the changes makes punitive action is unlikely.
Regulations published ECB helmets follows: "It must be a shared responsibility among all cricketer relevant participation and boycott of the first class, the team or the club owner (as appropriate) that he / she is playing to ensure that he / she wears a head scarf compatible All times when doing any activity regulation in any game.
"Although the powers of the arbitrator in accordance with the list of 4, in the absence of a cricketer participation of the relevant alleged to be in breach of Article 3, or failure to act immediately on instructions and sentenced to wear protective head or face mask (as applicable) in accordance with Article 4, cricketer Post relevant and his / her county of the first class, the team or the club (as appropriate) may be pointing to the CDC to disciplinary action in accordance with regulations CDC ".