Cook earnings to lead England in record-breaking Test
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CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH: England Test captain Alastair Cook will turn country’s many capped Test cricketer on Thursday when he leads his nation into conflict for a array opposite Bangladesh, usually days after attending his daughter’s birth behind home.
Cook, widely sloping eventually to turn Test cricket’s tip run-scorer, will win his 134th tip during a start in Chittagong of a two-match array in that England will wish to say a ideal Test record opposite a hosts.
Along with Australia, England are one of usually dual teams to have won all of their Test matches opposite Bangladesh given a former East Pakistan assimilated cricket’s tip list 16 years ago.
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And after an considerable feat in a preceding ODI series, England will imagination their chances of fluctuating that 100 percent record with a likes of Cook and quick bowler Stuart Broad behind in a mix.
Cook, who no longer plays ODI cricket, had been acclimatising with his teammates in Bangladesh before drifting behind home final week for a birth of his second daughter.
But after nearing behind in Bangladesh on Monday night, Cook took partial in nets on Tuesday during Chittagong’s MA Aziz Stadium as he looks to supplement to his challenging record on a spinning marks of a Indian sub-continent.
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The 31-year-old’s final debate to a sub-continent saw him lead England to an superb array win over India in 2012, while he scored 173 on his usually prior Test in Chittagong in 2010.
“The volume of cricket that Cooky’s played in a subcontinent, we consider he’ll fit behind in seamlessly,” England quick bowler Steve Finn told reporters in Chittagong after a final warm-up match. “I consider you’d be a bit disturbed if it was someone who was reduction experienced, we suppose, and hadn’t gifted these conditions before and spent time in a middle, since that’s important.”
Cook, who will pass Alec Stewart during a tip of a list for many Test appearances, could good be assimilated during a tip of a sequence by a debutant after Ben Duckett and Haseeb Hameed both done clever cases for a call-up.
His many new opening partner Alex Hales has motionless to lay out a debate for confidence reasons, following a lead set by England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan.
The 22-year-old Duckett in sold has tender in a rave to a array and will many approaching get a call after notching adult his fourth half century in a final 5 innings in a final warm-up match.
But he will be opposed for a place with 19-year-old Hameed, who has been dubbed “Baby Boycott” for an stubborn character that has evoked memories of a mythological England batsman Geoffrey Boycott.
At a other finish of a age scale, a 39-year-old spinner Gareth Batty could also find himself behind in a starting XI some-more than 11 years after a final of his 7 Tests.
The maestro Surrey offbreak bowler is widely approaching to be picked along with leg-spinner Adil Rashid and all-rounder Moeen Ali, to give England 3 spinning options.
Bangladesh have picked 4 spinners and only dual seamers in their 14-man patrol as they try and overcome a detriment of their star gait bowler Mustafizur Rahman, who is improving from medicine on his shoulder.
Although hosts are a vastly softened ODI side, they are still struggling to contest opposite a best in a five-day format and their manager Chandika Hathurusinghe has concurred a miss of peculiarity bowlers in a longest format of a game.
“We haven’t got a right multiple in Test cricket. we have been fighting to find bowlers who can get 20 wickets in Tests,” Hathurusinghe told reporters in Chittagong.
After a compare in Chittagong, a teams will conduct to Dhaka for a second and final Test commencement on Oct 28.
Bangladesh squad:
Mushfiqur Rahim (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah Riyad, Shakib Al Hasan, Shuvagata Hom, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Shafiul Islam, Taijul Islam, Kamrul Islam, Nurul Hasan.
England squad:
Alastair Cook (captain), Ben Duckett, Haseeb Hameed, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Gary Ballance, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Zafar Ansari, Gareth Batty, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Jake Ball.
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