Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua roa pea a Alastair Cook e mahi ana i tana patu me tana kaiako tawhito a Graham Gooch engari kei te mau tonu ana raru hangarau. Ko te rangatira o Ingarangi, kaore he rau tau mo te ao mo te tata ki te rua tau, i rahua mo te wa tuarua i te Whakamatau tuatahi i te mea i rahua tana rahinga tawhito ki te poi katoa i waho o te taha o waho i whakamahia ano e West Indies. Hei whakapiki ake i te pouri o Cook, he ngoikoretanga ano mo Jonathan Trott, kua mau ki te hokinga kino ki te kapa Ingarihi mo tana 50th Test, 18 marama i muri i te wharanga o te wehenga o te haerenga o Ashes whai muri i tana 49th. Ko te whiu takirua i te timatanga o te wehenga tuarua o Ingarangi i waiho i a raatau ki te mahi nui i roto i tenei Whakamatau tuatahi ki te mahi ki te wikitoria i te Sir Viv Richards Stadium ahakoa i whiwhi ratou i te ara tuatahi o te 104. Kaore e taea e Cook te mahi i etahi atu hape, me te tiamana hou o te ECB a Colin Graves e kii ana i te wikitoria i konei i runga i te whakahe i West Indies i whakahehia e ia hei "waenganui" i mua i tenei haerenga. I hoki mai a Cook ki tetahi mea e rite ana ki tana pai i tera tau me nga haurua haurua e toru i roto i ana innings Whakamatau e wha whakamutunga ki Inia engari ko tana ahua pouri i Sri Lanka i arahina ai a Ingarangi ki te maka atu ia hei rangatira mo te 50-over i mua o te Ipu o te Ao. I tae atu ia ki te Karipiana kei te mamae tonu ia i taua whiu engari me te hangarau kua whakarerekehia, a ka ahua hou i te eke ki te rau whakawera ki a St Kitts. Ko te taahiraa ki te taumata Whakamātautau, heoi, kua kite Cook i te pakanga me Jerome Taylor titiro tetahi mea, engari noa i roto i te tuku i te rua ia me Trott hoki ki te 20 noa i runga i te poari rite Ingarangi mau te tīmatanga toka ki to ratou innings tuarua. I whakahokia mai a Trott i roto i te tūranga o te kaitākaro tuwhera, engari i titiro ia ki te whakatakoto i te pato, a inaianei e wha, a ka tino hinga i roto i te kiri, i a ia e eke ana i te poi pai mai i Taylor ki Denesh Ramdin. I hapa anō a Alastair Cook i te pā i te rā tuatoru o te whakamātautau tuatahi i Antigua. Ko Jonathan Trott hoki i kore utu i te mea ko nga poaka tuatahi e toru kaore ano kia nui. Ko James Tredwell...
I kati a Ingarangi i te ra tuatoru o te Whakamātautau Tuatahi i runga i te 116 mo te toru, 220 nga rerenga i mua. I tukitukia a West Indies mō te 295 i roto i ā rātou whiringa tuatahi. E wha nga wikitōria a James Tredwell i roto i ngā whiringa o Inia ki te Uru. I eke a Jermaine Blackwood ki tana tūranga Tuatahi mō ngā kaihautū. I hē anō a Jonathan Trott (4) rāua ko Alastair Cook (13) ki te pōro. Ko Ian Bell i eke ki waho i te 11 i te wā i hinga ai a Ingarangi ki te 52 mō te toru. Ko Joe Root (32*) rāua ko Gary Ballance (44*) kāore anō kia hinga i ngā rākau i te rā tuatoru.