Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Me whakarere a Alastair Cook i te haruru nui e karapoti ana i te kirikiti Ingarihi, me te arotahi ki te mea kua noho hei raupapa Whakamatau tino nui o tana mahi. Ko te hinganga ki a West Indies i roto i te pakanga whakamātautau e toru ka timata i konei i te Mane he mea e kore e taea te whakaaro mo te rangatira o Ingarangi e tino hiahia ana ki te karo i te whakararuraru i nga whakarereketanga o te whenua e haere ana a tawhio noa ia. He maha ngā mea i tupu, mai i te matenga o Paora Downton, ki ngā whakapae e karapoti ana i te kaiwhakahaere hōu o te kirikiti, me te wairua o Kevin Pietersen e noho tonu ana, ā, kāore anō te whakamātautau tuatahi kia tae mai. Ko Alastair Cook kei roto i ngā kupenga i mua i te Whakamātautau tuatahi i Te Hau-ā-uru o tētahi raupapa tino hira mō tana mahi. He kupu torutoru a Cook me ōna hoa kapa o Ingarangi i te whakangungu i mua i te Whakamātautau Tuatahi i te Mane. West Indies (he pea): K Braithwaite, Smith, Samuels, Chanderpaul, Darren Bravo, Blackwood, Ramdin (kapene me te wkt), Holder, Benn, Taylor, Roach. Ingarangi (he pea): Cook (kapene), Trott, Ballance, Bell, Root, Stokes, Buttler (wkt), Jordan, Broad, Tredwell, Anderson. Kaiwhawhai: Steve Davis (Ahitereiria) me Billy Bowden (New Zealand). Kaiwhakarite TV: Bruce Oxenford (Ahitereiria). Kaiwhawhai: Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe). TV me RADIO: LIVE Sky Sports 2 (mai i te 2.30pm) me te BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (mai i te 2.45pm). He tupono ki te ua i ngā rā e rima katoa, ā, he kaha te hau i ngā rā katoa e pā ana ki te pōro, ā, ka tino nui te hurihanga o te hurihanga. 26°C. Heoi, e mōhio ana a Cook, ko ia, ko te kaiako a Peter Moores, kāore e taea e rātau te peke i roto i te mea e tika ana kia iti rawa te utu o te hōtaka whakamātautau 17 o Ingarangi i roto i nga marama e iwa e whai ake nei. I nga wa iti ake o te koretake, ko te putanga o te 100 o Jimmy Anderson Test me ona tupono ki te whakarite i nga patunga e wha e hiahiatia ana e ia kia eke atu ki a Sir Ian Botham ka noho hei kaiwhiwhi whiwhinga o Ingarangi hei rangatira mo te kaupapa. Waihoki, ko te hokinga mai o Jonathan Trott, e rite ana ki te whakatuwhera ki a Cook, 18 marama i muri i tana wehenga mai i te haerenga o Ingarangi ki te whenua o te whenua, he whanaketanga nui kua...
He maha nga ra kua pahure mai i te taenga mai o Ingarangi ki te Karipiana. Ahakoa te whakakorenga o Paora Downton, kei te arotahi a Cook ki nga raupapa Whakamatau. Ka tū a Ingarangi ki te West Indies i te tuatahi o ngā whakamātautau e toru mai i te Mane. I eke a Pietersen ki te 170 mō Surrey ki Oxford MCCU. Ka eke a James Anderson ki tana 100 o nga whakamātautau i te Mane. Ka hoki mai a Jonathan Trott ki te rārangi whakamātautau i muri i te raupapa o te Puka.