Elusive Ton Weighing Heavily On Cook ; the World of Cricket

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IT IS a bit harsh to call it a barren spell when we are dealing with a 23-year-old who has scored seven Test centuries, but Alastair Cook goes into battle against the extreme pace of South Africa today looking to overcome his worst run since starting his England career with a bang.

His debut hundred a`gainst India in Nagpur was only twoand-a- half years ago but Cook has already played 30 Tests, proved himself an opening batsman of rare ability and looks assured of becoming one of the leading run scorers in English history.

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Elusive Ton Weighing Heavily On Cook ; the World of Cricket

First, though, he has to prove that his run of six successive Tests without a hundred, all of them against New Zealand, is no more than a blip. The man whose conventional, almost old-fashioned batting skills make him something of a throwback wants to add that ...

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