There is something about Asia’s cricketing outposts that brings peace to Alastair Cook. It was in Nagpur where he made a Test hundred on debut and today, in the equally unrarified surroundings of the RA Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, he added another century in his first Test innings as captain.
Kevin Pietersen perhaps outdid Cook for [...]
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Rob will be here from 3am. In the meantime, read David Hopps’s opiniomn on England’s captain for the series, Alastair Cook.
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