Alastair Cook fell cheaply for the second time in the match for MCC against county champions Yorkshire in Abu Dhabi . Cook , who made just three in the first innings , mustered five at his second attempt on Tuesday morning before his attempt to dispatch a short ball from Jack Brooks went straight into the hands of Adil Rashid at midwicket . The England Test captain will next week depart for his first assignment of this Ashes year - to take on the West Indies in the Caribbean . Alastair Cook fell cheaply for the second time in the match for MCC against county champions Yorkshire . Cook , who made just three in the first innings , mustered five at his second attempt on Tuesday morning . But he will do so on the back of two failures in his only two first-class innings since last season . Cook caused a stir last week when he described England 's decision to replace him as their World Cup captain as 'probably wrong ' , in hindsight . The opener continued his poor form in a one-day international series in Sri Lanka late last year , and England responded by dropping him in favour of Eoin Morgan . They went on , however , to make an embarrassing early exit from the global tournament in Australia and New Zealand - beating only minnows Scotland and Afghanistan , and eliminated by a defeat against Bangladesh . The England Test captain has struggled for form with the bat and heads to the West Indies in terrible nick . Jack Brooks ( third from left ) celebrates after dismissing Cook early on for Yorkshire . Cook agreed to play for MCC against Yorkshire at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium , in the traditional curtain-raiser for the new season . But there has been no return to form for England 's most prolific Test centurion - who is without an international hundred in any format since May 2013 . MCC were in a spot of bother too after his early dismissal , on 30 for one and still needing another 121 runs merely to avoid an innings defeat .
Alastair Cook out made just five for the MCC against Yorkshire . The opening batsman was dismissed for 61 in the first innings . Peter ##es ' side travel to the West ##land next door .