Cook vows to remain England's one-day captain despite fourth successive ODI series loss

Despite losing a fourth successive ODI series, Alastair Cook has vowed to remain England's one-day captain.

Cook managed to score only a single run on Tuesday as England lost to Sri Lanka by 90 runs to trail 4-2 in the seven-match series with one ODI remaining. Cook admitted that he still expects to be captain when England travel down under next month, first of all for a tri-series against Australia and India.

Cook claimed that it's tough at the moment, adding that he is a better player than he is showing at the moment, and added that he has just got to keep going, The BBC reported.

The skipper has now scored 499 runs at an average of 24.95, with only one half century, in his last 21 ODIs, during which time England have won only eight matches. Cook, who has scored five ODI centuries in 91 appearances, said that not scoring the runs he would like is not a great place to be as a captain.

Four of those hundreds have been as skipper, but the most recent came against West Indies in June 2012. He said that one wants to lead from the front, and when it's not happening for a player it is incredibly frustrating.

Cook's difficult day began when he dropped key Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara on 41 and the left-hander went on to make 112. He admitted that days like these don't make the job any easier, adding that it's probably a good job that he is off a lot of social media and in the middle of Sri Lanka at the moment where the internet is not so great.

Meanwhile, England coach Peter Moores said that the situation would be assessed after the completion of the Sri Lanka series. He said that it would be wrong of him as a selector and coach not to review things at the end of this series, admitting that Cook is in a tough patch at the moment but adding that the skipper is working extremely hard to get out of that.