• Day three: Pakistan 523-8 dec; England 290-3
• Captain to resume on 168 with England 233 runs behind in first Test
You could have bet the house,the family silver, the car and the cat on Alastair Cook making a century and batting through the day. There was never any doubt.
Cook has made hundreds for England around the globe, or in all circumstances,in adversity, when he seems at his best, or occasionally with a freedom that always tends to surprise. But in the Zayed Stadium,there was something nearly feudal approximately it: a lord of his 22-yard bleached and parched manor ruthlessly and methodically extracting his dues from the poor, downtrodden serfs whose lot in life is to fling a leather rag of a ball for his personal delectation. There are times when the game of cricket has a specific cruelty all of its own.
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Source: theguardian.com