England captain Alastair Cook’s dreadful run of form continued as he was dismissed for just 22 on the fourth day of the second Test against India at Lord’s.
The left-handed opener fell in all-too familiar fashion when, having batted for more than two hours, he pushed at a ball outside off stump from seamer Ishant Sharma and was caught behind for the second time in the match by opposing captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
That made it 27 innings since the 29-year-old Cook had scored the last of his England record 25 Test hundreds.
And it also meant that Cook had totalled a meagre 129 runs in nine Test innings this calendar year.
Cook’s latest dismissal came during a collapse that saw England lose three wickets for two runs as they slumped to 72 for four chasing an imposing 319 for victory in a bid to go 1-0 up in the five-match series.
By Sunday’s close, England had reached 105 for four, with Joe Root 14 not out and Moeen Ali unbeaten on 15
