The Passing Of Captain Cook

Another great one looks into the future.

Two Captains...

.... but there can be only one winner!

A Pause For Pain

Yes Big Al, we know. We had to watch it as well.

Bad Karma Cook

A Pressing Question

From what I have seen so far they could take a leaf out of Swann's plan book and just sneak off home to Mum.

Winners And Losers

In sport, if you are not one you are certainly the other.

Building Relationships/Making Plans

Cook and Giles work on their relationship in the open nets. That or they may be anticipating those sneaky Aussies opening the bowling with spin.

In Step?

The Captain of  Gryffindor follows the Flower Master on the way to a mystical eastern experience.

Cricket Physics

The closer you are to the egotistical black hole the greater the attraction, and danger.

Cut And Thrust

While both sides were a bit scratchy in parts the Lords Test saw both sides giving it plenty of "try". It sets up the rest of the series with some interesting questions, an improvement on the processions that some early season  series have been in recent years.

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Tall, Dark And Solid

Captain Cook scores another hundred, and very easy he makes it look.

Who's Got A Big Gong Then?

Not bad for a young fella eh?

MBE - Master Batsman for England.

On Top Of The World

There can be very little arguement as to who is number one.

Any Thing You Can Do...

A Little Bit Of History

Move over Hobbs and Sutcliffe there are new kids on the pitch. Lords is all about history so it was great to see Strauss and Cook break an 80 something year old record for the opening stand. It may prove to be the most memorable aspect of the entire test.

An Orange Day

Rather than throw in the towel Cook and Vaughan sort to use it wisely and stay sunny until the skies darkened.

We are informed that the juice and towel colour coordination is purely coincidental.