England captain Alastair Cook expects the rule change on the toss in county cricket to benefit the national team.This season the travelling captain is offered the option of bowling first, with the idea that counties will prepare better pitches and encourage more spin bowling.The first few weeks suggest the plan is working - runs have been flowing, bowlers are having to work harder for their wickets, and there has been a great deal more spin bowling than previous years. Cook - who has been in superb form this season, scoring three centuries in four games for Essex - says that if the new conditions encourage bowlers to learn new skills, such as reverse swing, the England team will benefit in the long term.The new rules have helped - the pitches have been flatter, he told Sky Sports News HQ. They have produced better cricket. Cook has already made three centuries this season That can only help the England cricket team in the long run. A lot more spin has been bowled. You cant get away with 70mph, dobbing it on a length.You have to find ways to get 20 wickets. Counties will be brave and will hopefully pick bowlers who might be younger, but can get it down there - those young guys will get the opportunities and have to learn skills like reverse swing and spinning it.Im not sure the bowlers will be so keen on it. In the first four games I think more runs have been scored. In three out of the four games Ive played, 350 has been a good score but there has been something in it (the pitch) as you would expect in April.Thats exactly with Andrew Strauss and the ECB would have wanted, pitches flatter that take spin later on.Also See:County Championship Div One tableCounty Championship Div Two tableDomestic fixtures/resultsGet Surrey tickets!Cheap Cardinals Jerseys Authentic .Y. - Rob Manfred was promoted Monday to Major League Baseballs chief operating officer, which may make him a candidate to succeed Bud Selig as commissioner. Cheap Willie McGee Jersey . -- When the Florida Panthers fell behind by two goals in the first period to the top team in the NHL, it appeared they were on their way to yet another loss. http://www.cheapstlouiscardinalsjerseys.com/?tag=cheap-roger-maris-jersey . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. Cheap Bob Gibson Jersey . After the whistle, Thornton skated the length of the ice, pulled Orpik to the ice from behind and punched him in the face several times. Cheap Keith Hernandez Jersey . Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey last Sunday. The fine is the fourth this season for Goldson. He was fined $30,000 for a hit on the New York Jets Jeff Cumberland in Week 1.UCLA?coach Jim Mora was issued a public reprimand by the Pac-12 after he referred to the officiating as criminal in a postgame radio interview following the Bruins win against Arizona?on Saturday.Mora received a 15-yard penalty for disputing a non-call by the officials late in the first quarter and, after the game, was told by UCLA sideline reporter Wayne Cook, That [penalty] was a crazy call. We still cant figure it out.Youre talking about when they had a lineman 8 yards downfield blocking the linebacker and they threw the ball? Mora said. Yeah, I guess maybe I dont know football very well. I dont know.Arizona was initially penalized for an ineligible receiver downfield, but the call was changed, according to a statement from the conference.The flag was picked up when it was determined that the Arizona quarterback was out of the pocket and legally threw the ball away out of bounds, the statement said. Per the CCA Officiating Manual, If the passer is legally throwing the ball away and it lands near or beyond the sideline, do not penalize the offense for having ineligible players downfield.The conference said it received confirmation from the NCAA that the play was ruled correctly.Mora also made a reference to the end of the Cal-Utah?game, in which Utah was mistakenly charged its secoond timeout with 14 seconds left.dddddddddddd. The Utes had first-and-goal from the 2-yard line at the time with one timeout left, as opposed to two; coach Kyle Whittingham said it changed his play-calling.Utah ran it unsuccessfully on first down, called a timeout, threw an incompletion on second down, and the Utes were stuffed on a run play to end the game in a 28-23 loss.Kyle Whittingham is a heck of a football coach and a very smart man, and I saw the words come out of his mouth as he looked at the official: This ones on you, Mora said. So, Im going to press for answers. I think that our players deserve answers. They invest way too much in this game to not have answers. To not have it done the right way. Its criminal.This is the second time Mora has complained publicly about the conferences officiating this season. After the Bruins overtime loss to Texas A&M, he accused a Pac-12 official of tapping center Scott Quessenberry near the end of the game, thus inadvertently triggering the teams silent snap count and leading to a premature snap in the final minute of regulation. Replay of the sequence, however, did not indicate any wrongdoing by the official. ' ' '