Published: September 07, 2018
• Fifth Test, day one: England 198-7
• Cook scores 71 but middle order collapses
For the last – or possibly penultimate – time England were indebted to Alastair Cook for keeping them afloat. He alone made crease occupation a relatively trouble-free occupation on another day when the quality of English batting came under severe scrutiny.
Once he had departed for 71 a placid, sluggish Oval surface suddenly resembled a snake pit as Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow both departed without scoring. England slumped from 133 f or one to 134 for four and then to 198 for seven at the close.
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