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...cricketer Alastair Cook speaks ahead of the third day of the third Edgbaston Test against India. Cook's highest Test score on home soil has prepared the way for England to tick off another ambition by displacing India as the number one Test side in the world. England...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2011/aug/12/alastair-cook-england-india-video
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...Cook ground India into submission at Edgbaston yesterday before insisting England would never be satisfied as they plan for life as the world's best Test team. The England opener hit an unbeaten 182 as Andrew Strauss's men finished the second day of the...
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2025133/Alastair-Cook-daddy-run-feast.html?ITO=1490
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...They are playing well and taking the initiative in this series. Theres a lot of cricket left in this tour, so hopefully we can show some character. Having burned brightly in the Ashes last winter, Alastair Cooks retreat into the shad......
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Daily Express
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...are ways you must bowl at Alastair Cook and ways you must not. Australia erred during the winter by bowling too short at him, which for a back-foot player like Cook was cannon fodder. But the Indians have not made the same mistake. Just like Pakistan did...
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2023954/India-recipe-Alastair-Cook-problems--Nasser-Hussain.html?ITO=1490
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...Oneindia Cricket on your Mobile go to: http://cricket.oneindia.mobi/ Northampton, Aug 5: Struggling England opener Alastair Cook is confident of re-discovering his form and contribute to his team's performance in the last two Tests of the four-match series...
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OneIndia
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...failure: Alastair Cook only scored 13 runs in two innings Alastair Cook's match return of 13 runs was his lowest in a Test in which he has batted in both innings since he made 4 and 0 in Jamaica in February 2009 - the game in which England were skittled for...
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2018339/Lords-match-zone-Rare-failure-Alastair-Cook.html?ITO=1490
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...Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood cashed in on beautiful batting conditions to take England to 281 for three at tea on the third day of the second test against South Africa on Monday. You may also want to see South Africa, who scored 343 in their first innings...
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DNA India
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...he missed and the ball thudded into his front pad. Up went the finger and Pietersen glanced down the pitch at his partner, Alastair Cook. "Is it out?" Cook nodded that it most certainly was. In the wake of Pietersen's departure, Cook was initially becalmed....
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/dec/28/england-south-africa-durban-test
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...Back in the runs: Alastair Cook finally finds his form in South Africa Photo: AP Alastair Cook made his first half-century in nine Test innings, his highest score since making 95 in the Lord's Test of last summer as England made steady progress, losing...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/6899476/South-Africa-v-England-Alastair-Cook-battles-back-to-form.html
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National Selector Geoff Cook chatted to ECBtv after announcing the Test and ODI squads
Alastair Cook has demonstrated the ability to turn himself into a dominant one-day player in his time away with Essex, says ECB national selector Geoff Miller.
Cook,
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England and Wales Cricket Board
http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/england-in-south-africa-2009-10/miller,308098,EN.html
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England, who return home today from the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa
after a trouncing from Australia, plan to rest Andrew Strauss for the tour
of Bangladesh early next year and hand the captaincy for the first time to
Alastair Cook.
The
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6860196.ece
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GLAMORGAN are looking to counter the twin threat of Essex boys Alastair Cook and Danish Kaneria in the crucial county championship clash at the Swalec Stadium which starts today.
The two promotion-chasing counties clash in Cardiff over the next four
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Wales Online
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/sports-news-round-up/2009/09/10/glamorgan-face-a-double-threat-91466-24651378/
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England's Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara failed to play themselves into form
ahead the final Ashes Test after both fell cheaply at Lord's on the second
morning of the LV County Championship match against Middlesex.
The Essex pair who were among
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6793375.ece
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England batsman Alastair Cook feels that the team has to quickly get over the elation of winning the second Ashes Test at Lords as prolonged celebrations may end up derailing their bid to regain the coveted urn.
We have to forget about Lords. There
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Indian Express
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/lords-is-past-need-to-look-at-the-greater-goal/494507/
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Johnson sent down a bouncer to Andrew Strauss timed at 93.6mph. The batsman comfortably swerved out of way.
Ravi Bopara's innings was disappointingly brief, but he produced a few glimpses of his fluent stroke-making ability, with one particularly
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-1200241/ASHES-2009-Chris-Foys-match-zone--highlights-expert-analysis-day-Lords.html?ITO=1490
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For so long yesterday in the bright summer sunshine, England made light of history. But by the close of their resumed quest for the Ashes they could feel its weight bearing down on them once more.
The resplendent start they made to the second Test at a
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/pietersen-and-co-fail-to-carry-burden-of-history-1749969.html
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Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook gave England a flying start to the second Ashes Test against Australia on Thursday, punishing wayward pace bowler Mitchell Johnson as they reached 126 without loss at lunch on day one at Lord's.
Cook was 67 not out at
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NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showsports.aspx?id=SPOEN20090101572
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England rescued a dramatic draw in Cardiff in the 1st Ashes Test. Andrew Strauss's side take on Australia again on Thursday at Lord's - Stuart Broad and Alastair Cook share their thoughts
Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad were speaking along with other
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Mirror.co.uk
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/2009/07/14/video-stuart-broad-and-alastair-cook-on-the-ashes-so-far-115875-21518798/
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England's batsmen know they have been made to look like Charlies - by their own tail-end.
And now they have held up their hands to admit Sunday's dramatic rescue act should never have been left to their heroic 'rabbits'.
James Anderson and Monty
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Mirror.co.uk
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/2009/07/14/alastair-cook-england-were-let-down-in-cardiff-by-me-and-top-batsmen-115875-21518438/
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HE could well have been sharing new ball duties for England alongside James Anderson rather than trying to bowl over Tiger Woods and co at the Open next week.
Just seven years ago multi-talented sportsman Rhys Davies was as adept on the cricket pitch
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Wales Online
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sports/sports-news-round-up/2009/07/10/golf-rgys-davies-aims-to-bowl-them-over-at-open-91466-24117702/
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He may be keen to point out that he is half Welsh but Alastair Cook, the St Paul’s Cathedral choirboy turned world-class opening batsman, will struggle to join in when
Katherine Jenkins sings Land Of My Fathers before today’s seismic first Ashes Test
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Daily Mail - UK
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Alastair Cook is 24 and has scored 3,287 Test runs. No England batsman has
amassed so many so young and when he is 34, given a fair wind, Cook may well
be the heaviest scorer of the lot. Ahead of Graham Gooch, Geoff Boycott,
David Gower and, who knows,
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/alastair-cook-the-first-among-equals-1725710.html
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England are hoping the furore surrounding
Flintoffs latest drinking escapade will subside quickly and they did
their best to keep the lowest of profiles against Warwickshire in their
Ashes warm-up match.
A
modest batting display of 290-8 declared was
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Daily Express
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/111425/Cook-serves-up-a-feast-to-lift-mood/
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...Composed: Alistair Cook took the opportunity to get some valuable runs under his belt Photo: GETTY IMAGES Alastair Cook moved seamlessly past three figures this afternoon but Kevin Pietersen missed the chance for some valuable batting practice against Warwickshire....
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/theashes/5709803/Alastair-Cook-century-lifts-England.html
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If dress rehearsals are designed to mirror the real thing as closely as possible then the first day of this vaguely historic fixture was only a modest success. For a start there was no sledging audible or visible from the Warwickshire side. Surely the
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Buzzle
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/282238.html
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Bad weather and a stubborn performance from Alastair Cook denied Middlesex the
victory they deserved.
Play eventually began at 3pm, leaving Middlesex little time in which to
dismiss Essex, and there was no mistaking their attacking intent as
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/counties/5488066/Alastair-Cook-stands-firm-as-Essex-escape-with-draw-against-Middlesex.html
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...said Alastair Cook cannot play one-day cricket, and especially Twenty20? The England Test opener, left out of his country's limited-overs plans during this Ashes summer, is responding with some explosive batting for Essex. Just ask Kent, against whom in...
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6410634.ece
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Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss get suited up for the summer. Photograph: Jim Naughten
Don't mention the "A" word. That's the buzz phrase ricocheting around the modest hotel suite turned makeshift photographic studio this afternoon. Any talk of the
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Guardian Unlimited
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Don't mention the "A" word. That's the buzz phrase ricocheting around the modest hotel suite turned makeshift photographic studio this afternoon. Any talk of the Ashes is strictly out of bounds. The big battle for the tiny trophy is not up for
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Buzzle
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Alastair Cook is desperate to force his way back into England's one-day reckoning
Alastair Cook has not given up hope of regaining his place in the England one-day side.
The 24-year-old has played 23 internationals for England but lost his spot in the
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England and Wales Cricket Board
http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/cook-maintains-one-day-hopes,305643,EN.html
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The hitman: Usman Afzaal in commanding form at Lord's
Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Who needs a returning Indian Premier League player in your side when you have
an England opener to steal the headlines?
That Alastair Cook scored a sublime 80 off 56 balls
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/twenty20/5383957/Alastair-Cook-hits-form.html
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The start of the second day's play of the second Test match between England and West Indies has been delayed by rains.
Ravi Bopara put himself in elite England company with a third successive Test innings ton as he and Alastair Cook took control.
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ESPN STAR Sports
http://www.espnstar.com/home/news/detail/item267937/
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Whatever the future holds for Test cricket two men will unquestionably be part of it. They are both from Essex, they are separated by only three months in age, they first began playing cricket with each other when they were 12 and yesterday Alastair
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/essex-boys-country-stroll-runs-west-indies-ragged-1685123.html
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Double act: England No 2 and 3 - Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara - both made centuries on the first day of the second Test in Durham
Photo: REUTERS
Test cricket may be undergoing one of its periodic identity crises but there
were no such wobbles from
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/5325845/England-v-West-Indies-Ravi-Bopara-and-Alastair-Cook-shine-in-Durham.html
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Ravi Bopara celebrates his third century in a row.
Alastair Cook (top) celebrates his century as Ravi Bopara applauds.
Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara scored patient centuries as England closed day one of the second and final Test against the West Indies
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CricketWorld.com
http://www.cricketworld.com//archive_series/archive_series_2009/west_indies_in_england/article/?aid=20578
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(CNN) -- Ravi Bopara scored his third century in successive Test innings as he and Alastair Cook put England in control on the first day of the second Test against West Indies at a chilly Durham on Thursday.
Bopara (left) and Cook took the West Indies
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/hYaWNUx8gMI/index.html
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Ravi Bopara celebrates his third century in a row.
Alastair Cook (top) celebrates his century as Ravi Bopara applauds.
Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara scored patient centuries as England closed day one of the second and final Test against the West Indies
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CricketWorld.com
http://www.cricketworld.com//west_indies_in_england/article/?aid=20578
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Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara shared a century stand as England reached 184-1 at tea on day one of the second Test.
On a placid surface in sunny, but cold conditions in the north east, Alastair Cook consolidated from a watchful start to record his 20th
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DreamCricket.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/8048078.stm
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Fidel Edwards took three wickets after lunch as West Indies made impressive progress on day one of the first Test against England at Lord's.
Edwards removed Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen in successive balls before also accounting for Paul
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Maurice Chambers ripped through the West Indian line-up, taking four for 62.
Left-handers Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Alastair Cook starred for their respective teams on day two of the three-day game between Essex and the touring West Indians at
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CricketWorld.com
http://www.cricketworld.com//west_indies_in_england/article/?aid=20354
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BRIDGETOWN: Alastair Cook scored his
first century in 16 Tests as England drew the fourth Test with West Indies,
making 279 for two on the final day at the Kensington Oval.
The
result means West Indies head into Friday's final Test in Port of
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Times of India
http://cricket.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Alastair-Cook-century-leads-England-to-draw/articleshow/4215208.cms
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...to learn not the be that enthusiastic in the field if he wants to make it in the West Indies team. 233-2 and that's tea. Alastair Cook: the youngest England batsman to reach 3,000 Test runs. 6.38pm: 100 partnership. Cook gets another boundary, his 13th, by...
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Daily Mail - UK
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...converted a fifty for only the eighth time in 28 attempts Alastair Cook recorded his first Test century since December 2007 as England batted out day five to draw the fourth Test against West Indies in Barbados. The tourists, who resumed 143 runs shy of West...
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BBC Sport
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...2: England vice-captain Alastair Cook hit his fourth straight half-century of the series on a largely uneventful morning in the fourth Test against West Indies on Monday. At the interval, England, trailing West Indies by 149 from the first innings, reached...
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Asian Age
http://203.197.197.71/presentation/leftnavigation/news/sports/draw-on-the-cards-as-england-fight-hard.aspx
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...morning when an attempted cut in Chris Gayle's first over resulted in him chopping into his stumps. But opening partner Alastair Cook registered his fourth consecutive Test half-century and his 12th in as many months, when he cut his eighth four off Sulieman...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/4928302/Alastair-Cook-hits-half-century-as-England-close-in-on-draw.html
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...morning when an attempted cut in Chris Gayle's first over resulted in him chopping into his stumps. But opening partner Alastair Cook registered his fourth consecutive Test half-century and his 12th in as many months, when he cut his eighth four off Sulieman...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/4928302/Alastair-Cook-hits-half-century-as-England-close-in-on-draw.html
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...Alastair Cook hit a six. No, really © AFP In and outâ¦again A few minutes before the toss, confirmation came through of a potentially significant team selection by England. Steve Harmison had been dropped in favour of Ryan Sidebottom on the surface expected...
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Cricinfo.com
http://www.cricinfo.com/wiveng2009/content/story/392483.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
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...and Cook have given England a tremendous start in Barbados Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook forged England's record opening stand against West Indies as the tourists gained the upper hand in the fourth Test. Strauss (142) was dropped on 58 but made an eye-catching...
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/cricket/england/7908230.stm
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...a towerring six Photo: GETTY IMAGES Such was England's confidence on day one in Bridgetown, that the normally reserved Alastair Cook even smashed Solomon Benn over midwicket for six, to bring up only the second maximum of his Test career. A rueful Gayle...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/4841368/West-Indies-at-sixes-as-Andrew-Strauss-and-Alastair-Cook-come-out-of-shell.html
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...and deprived in Antigua, Andrew Strauss, a general leading the charge rather than perching on a hilltop overseeing, and Alastair Cook, responded on a sublime Barbados day by compiling the largest opening partnership ever for England against these opponents. By...
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Buzzle
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/253253.html
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