Alastair Cook's 235* in Brisbane was the third highest by an England batsman in Australia. Only R.E Foster, 287 in 1903 and Wally Hammond, 251 in 1928, have scored more.
A 'daddy' century and one mother of an innings...
'Alastair Cook was a natural at 13', says Derek Randall in The Guardian. Alastair's also a master of understatement himself in his articles in Metro newspaper: "After everything that has happened in the past year I hope to use the next two months to prove I can play..."
