article_snippet.sent: To date, he is one match - eight runs in two innings - one problematic radio interview and one departure press conference, alongside coach Peter Moores, back into the regime he departed for three months after he Christmas axing as England's World Cup captain.
article_snippet.sent: As Cook, Moores and Cook, Moores and their playing and management colleagues playing and management colleagues reconvened at Gatwick Airport on Thursday, the captain's first task was to field questions on a series of topics unlikely to go away any time soon.
article_snippet.sent: he made 79 in he last Test innings, part of a wide-margin and third successive victory at home to India last summer, and will be a record-breaker for the foreseeable future as England's most prolific centurion.
article_snippet.sent: Before and after that moment, he will be beset by the endless stream of enquiries - about he own poor form of the past two years, he and Moores future, the remarks of outspoken new England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves ... and, of course, Kevin Pietersen.
article_snippet.sent: The speculation over whether Kevin Pietersen will return to the England fold will overshadow the tour .
article_snippet.sent: That ability, though, is what sets apart batsmen of his calibre - and his can only keep telling his his has the track record to prove it. '
article_snippet.sent: He spelled out in the weeks before England's first venture of an outrageously hectic year that, should Cook himself's tourists fail to beat the 'mediocre' opposition Cook's tourists are set to face in the Windies, there will be 'inquiries'.