article_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook still has the full support of Alastair Cook coach, team-mates and selectors and is unbeaten in four Tests.
article_snippet.sent: But Alastair Cook hopes of remaining England captain in the Ashes this summer hinge on what is going on back home.
article_snippet.sent: The three half-centuries Cook made in his last four Test innings of last summer count for little now as his battle to prove his remains the best man for the job nears crunch time.
article_snippet.sent: England Alastair Cook is not concerned about Alastair Cook failure to hit a Test hundred since May 2013 .
article_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook remains England's leading century maker despite Alastair Cook recent failure to score a Test century .
article_snippet.sent: The second Test that starts here is not exactly make or break for Alastair Cook but Alastair Cook needs runs and a victory as much as at any time in a career that has seen Alastair Cook score more Test centuries than any other Englishman.
article_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook was both proactive and imaginative for much of that first Test but Alastair Cook is a captain who leads mainly by example and simply has to break a run that now sees Alastair Cook without a Test century for 33 innings.
article_snippet.sent: The statistics certainly make grim reading for Alastair Cook.
article_snippet.sent: In 21 of those 33 innings Alastair Cook has not passed 25 and Alastair Cook Test average of 45.65 is lower than at any time since the 2010-11 Ashes.
article_snippet.sent: Since the last of Alastair Cook 25 Test centuries, against New Zealand at Headingley in May 2013, Alastair Cook is averaging under 29.
article_snippet.sent: The only way for Alastair Cook to stop the questions about Alastair Cook lack of a big innings is to replicate the form Alastair Cook has been showing in practice here with Alastair Cook new slightly open stance and go back to churning out the runs.
article_snippet.sent: I have been working with Goochie on a number of things, as you always do,’ said Alastair Cook of Alastair Cook decision to work with Graham Gooch, Alastair Cook old mentor and the man Alastair Cook sacked as England batting coach.
article_snippet.sent: expressed Alastair Cook
highlights_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook has gone 33 Test innings without hitting a century .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook has been watching old footage of Alastair Cook to study Alastair Cook technique .