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England spinner Graeme Swann has praise the leadership skills of Alastair Cook but admit the one-day captain struggle to give team talks.
Opening batsman Cook takes over as 50-over captain last year and led England to a series victory at home to Sri Lanka, being named player of the series in the progression.
While Cook has full-grown into the role, Swann has exposed his rhetoric skills leave something to be preferred.
In his memoirs The Breaks Are Off, serialized in The Sun, Swann said: "Alastair Cook is a close mate and phoned me to ask whether I consideration he should take on the England one-day captaincy.
"I told him, yes, of course he should. I consideration he was more than good sufficient to re-invent him as a one-day batsman - just like Andrew Strauss did - and it would make him a shoo-in for the Test captaincy when Strauss takes a seat in the House of Lords.
"He was reasonably nervous for his maiden series as representative captain next to Sri Lanka last summer but his leadership was outstanding - apart from team talks.
"He stumbles and stammers a lot and is well-known for starting one ruling and jumping into another before he has finished.
"I gape at the floor in a bid not to express amusement."
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