Cook does not need captaincy burden

Nasser Hussain, in his daily dossier in the Daily Mail, lauds Alastair Cook for his century in Durban, attributing the knock to his mental strength, but adds that players and experts alike must not burden him with the talk of captaincy.

The Future England Captain thing was something that Mike Atherton was stuck with from a young age and I'm not sure that being in charge of the team in Bangladesh should be top of Cook's list of priorities right now.

He is still a young man, at 25, and his concentration has to be solely on batting for England and building on this display of patience and application.