Alastair Cook fell cheaply in both innings as MCC lost inside three days to county champions Yorkshire in Abu Dhabi . Cook , who made just three first time round , 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 international assignment of this Ashes year - to take on West Indies . Alastair Cook trudges off the field in Abu Dhabi after falling for five following just three in the first innings . The England Test captain faced 30 balls for his five for the MCC as they were easily beaten by Yorkshire . But he will do so on the back of two failures in his only two first-class innings since last season . Without a major contribution from him - and despite 74 in the second innings from his fellow , and former England , opener Nick Compton - MCC went down by nine wickets . They conceded a first-innings deficit of 151 , and then managed only 220 all out next time as Brooks ( three for 22 ) and Rashid ( four for 72 ) took the bowling honours - England 's leg-spin call-up finishing with two wickets in two balls . Yorkshire needed 20 overs under lights against the pink ball in the desert to knock off the 70 required . Cook 's potential England opening partner , Adam Lyth , wrapped up the match with 46 not out . Lyth hits through the offside at Sheikh Zayed Stadium as Yorkshire claimed a nine-wicket victory . First-innings centurion Adam Lyth , Cook 's prospective new Test opening partner after being named in the squad to take on the Windies , finished the match with successive boundaries off Adam Riley for an unbeaten 46 . The White Rose therefore started the new season with an emphatic win . 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 . He 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 . Yorkshire opener , Lyth ( centre ) , at the end of the match as his side needed 20 overs to chase down 70 . 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 . Cook agreed to play for MCC against Yorkshire at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in the traditional curtain-raiser for the new season . But there was to be no return to form for England 's most prolific Test centurion - who is without an international hundred in any format since May 2013 .
England captain Alastair Cook scored three and five for the MCC . Adam Lyth , named for England 's West Indies tour , scored 113 and 46no . Yorkshire beat the MCC by nine wickets on the third of four days .