cook's bradman jinx  with overcast conditions and moisture in the air, it’s easy to see why the out of nick alastair cook put west indies in to bat on test match special, graeme swann revealed the exact moment cook’s form with the bat took a turn for the worse he said: ‘two years ago when england were in new zealand, brendon mccullum said cook was the closest thing to don bradman 'he hasn’t scored a ton since it’s the greatest piece of reverse psychology i’ve ever seen’ alastair cook's former team mate graeme swann pointed out when the england captain's form turned  rashid made to wait  while the rain came down in the morning, there was much talk of whether yorkshire’s leg spinning all rounder adil rashid would play in this test despite many calling for his inclusion, the 27 year old will have to wait to make his debut assuming he is the next man to do so, he will be england’s 666th test player   though he will have the chance to skip straight to 667 adil rashid was made to wait for his test debut after being left out after much discussion on day one  woe for bravo  marlon samuels might have an excellent record against england, but darren bravo does not the batsman has no 50s in five tests against them   at a paltry average of 1975   so who can blame him for getting fidgety and poking at a wide ball from stuart broad as he crept towards the half century mark? kraigg brathwaite is first to fall as james anderson bowls the west indies opener with a massive in swinger  big day for grenada  viewers may not be familiar with grenada’s national cricket stadium as it is hardly a regular test venue after being built in 1999, it was damaged by hurricane ivan in 2004 and rebuilt in time for the 2007 world cup as a result, this is only the third test it has hosted, and on tuesday devon smith became the first grenadan ever to score a test run in grenada devon smith walks off after being dismissed without hitting the ball after being the first local to score a test run in grenada  joe root 'wasn't a massive fan' after the first time he faced now team mate james anderson  root’s rude awakening  in his latest ecb blog, joe root gives an insight into what it’s like for a batsman to face up to jimmy anderson ‘i’ll never forget the first time i came across jimmy, early in the 2011 season,’ said root ‘i was 20 and fairly new in the yorkshire first team he was making a rare county appearance for lancashire in a roses match in liverpool and let’s just say he was quite aggressive 'he took me a bit by surprise and on that initial evidence i wasn’t a massive fan’ family values  at tea, anderson’s father, michael, spoke to tms about the making of england’s leading wicket taker ‘every evening when i came home from work we would play out in the garden and he wouldn’t let me give my wicket away   he would always make sure he got me out,’ he said
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graeme swann revealed the exact moment alastair cook’s form turned  if adil rashid was picked for the second test he'd be england 666th player  devon smith was the first grenadan ever to score a test run in grenada 