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‘Bairstow was batting on a different wicket’ – Cook
- Updated: May 22, 2016
Jonny Bairstow looked as if he were “playing on a different wicket” to everyone else in the first Investec Test according to England captain, Alastair Cook.
Bairstow, who became the first England keeper to take nine catches and score a century in a Test, was named man of the match for what Cook hailed as his “extraordinary” innings of 140 against Sri Lanka. Only four other men reached 20 in the entire match.
But Cook was not surprised by Bairstow’s dominance. He said after the victory that he had believed Bairstow would represent England from the first time he saw him play and that, over the last couple of years, he had developed into the best batsman in the county game.
“I remember watching him play in Scarborough; one of the first times I saw him play,” Cook said. “He played …
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