Summary England has won three consecutive Ashes series.
HOBART (AP) - England skipper Alastair Cook has played a straight bat to Australian great Shane Warne s renewed criticism of his captaincy style, saying only results will matter in the five-test Ashes series starting Nov. 21 in Brisbane.
England has won three consecutive Ashes series, including a 3-0 victory at home completed in August, and arrived in Australia confident of winning four straight for the first time since the 19th century.
An English XI plays Australia A starting Wednesday in Hobart, where Cook will bat for the first time on tour after missing a warm-up match in Perth to rest his sore back.
Cook put Warne s comments this week about his "boring" and "negative" captaincy down to "what happens when England play in Australia."
He says: "I keep saying it, it s all about results."
