Everyone seems to have an opinion on Alastair Cook at the moment. Rarely can any batsman have received so much criticism after scoring a hundred as Cook did in the third ODI at Lord’s against Sri Lanka on Sunday.
In our latest column for All Out Cricket, we argue that Cook is the last of a dying breed of opening batsman. We don’t go quite as far as calling him a dinosaur, but we do compare him to that resolute accumulator of yesteryear Geoffrey Boycott.
Read why we believe Cook resembles the curmudgeonly Yorkshireman – on not off the field obviously where the angelic choir boy couldn’t be any more different to the abrasive Boycs - in Can the last of the Boycotts cut it as ODI Captain?
Then go and watch him prove us wrong by smashing a hundred off 60 balls in this afternoon’s ODI at Trent Bridge.
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