article_snippet.sent: It was just what Cook needed from a gifted but raw all-rounder who seemingly will always flirt with the self-destruct button but who has the ability to become a key figure in England’s future.
article_snippet.sent: When Cook scored an Ashes century in the most difficult of circumstances in Perth Cook was a rare ray of light in a lamentable series and looked destined to bat at No 6 for England and act as an attacking fourth seamer for the next 10 years.
article_snippet.sent: Yet just a few months later Cook was putting Cook out of the World Twenty20 by punching a locker in frustration in Barbados at the start of a nightmare run of form with both bat and ball for England.
article_snippet.sent: It did not get any better when Cook regained fitness and Cook was so out of touch that England, having moved Cook up and down the batting order, left Cook out of their doomed World Cup campaign.
article_snippet.sent: Now Cook is back Cook
article_snippet.sent: should become a fixture but already, with Moeen Ali returning after injury, Cook has lost Cook
article_snippet.sent: But Cook’s miss of Marlon Samuels began to look costly when Cook’s opened Cook’s shoulders in partnership with Denesh Ramdin after taking 141 balls to reach 50.
article_snippet.sent: Cook is on Cook hands and knees after dropping a catch from the edge of Marlon Samuels, who put up the greatest resistance for the hosts .