COOK UNDER PRESSURE
Markram is one for the future, says Prince
It has become difficult to read the sport pages without seeing an argument for Aiden Markram’s inclusion at the expense of Stephen Cook in the Test squad SA will send to England in July. This is not one of those stories; it is an explanation for why that is happening. "If we didn’t have a young opening batsman in the country scoring as many runs as Markram we wouldn’t be saying the same thing‚" former national selector Ashwell Prince said on Monday. " He is a bright talent and he clearly looks like one for the future. "But if you didn’t have someone like that coming through the ranks would you really be looking at replacing … Cook? "A month ago people were talking about how solid the partnership was between [Dean] Elgar and Cook. Three or four innings down the line suddenly that’s not the case anymore." Cook has scored three centuries in his 19 Test innings. But‚ on the tour to New Zealand in March‚ he scraped together 17 runs in four trips to the crease and was dropped for the thir...
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