Sam Cook strikes early but he’s still in a race against time to convince England

Finally getting his chance after a decade in county cricket, medium pacer needs to make an impact in Zimbabwe’s second innings to prove he deserves his placeThe slower you bowl, the faster people are to make up their minds about you. Which means that if you work at Sam Cook’s pace, the margins are pretty slim. There have been plenty of English bowlers roundabout Cook’s 80mph who got only a summer of Test cricket, some who were allowed only a single series, a handful who were given just the one Test.England used to make a tradition of picking a new one every spring, so that you’ll likely find that bloke in the tracksuit teaching the colts how to bowl at the club down the road had a gig opening the bowling for England once upon a summer. Continue reading...

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