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Alastair Cook during a practice session in Chittagong on Tuesday (AFP)

Chittagong - Cook will win his 134th Test cap in Chittagong against Bangladesh

By AFP

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Published: Tue 18 Oct 2016, 6:16 PM

Last updated: Tue 18 Oct 2016, 8:31 PM

Proud new father Alastair Cook will become England's most capped Test cricketer on Thursday when he leads his country into battle against Bangladesh, only days after attending his daughter's birth back home.
Cook will win his 134th cap at the start in Chittagong of a two-match series in which England will hope to maintain a perfect Test record against the hosts.
The England captain is also widely tipped to become Test cricket's highest run-scorer. 
Cook, who will turn 32 in December, has 10599 Test runs.
Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer in Test cricket, has 15921 runs in 200 Test matches.
So it will be interesting to see if the English opening batsmen can actually manage to get past Tendulkar eventually.
But for now, he has Bangladesh in his sights. 

Along with Australia, England are one of only two teams to have won all of their Test matches against Bangladesh since the former East Pakistan joined cricket's top table 16 years ago.
And after an impressive victory in the preceding one-day series, England will fancy their chances of extending that 100 percent record with the likes of Cook and fast bowler Stuart Broad back in the mix.
Cook, who no longer plays ODI cricket, had been acclimatising with his teammates in Bangladesh before flying home last week for the birth of his second daughter.
After arriving back in Bangladesh Monday, Cook took part in nets on Tuesday and then spoke of his pride at becoming a father again as well as his mixed emotions at returning to the fray so soon.
"Yeah it was a proud day... as you can imagine, having another daughter and then leaving so soon afterwards doesn't make you feel like the best husband or father in the world," he told Britain's Sky Sports.
"I do feel okay, now it's just about acclimatisation to the heat... it's a hell of a challenge playing in these conditions so respect to Bangladesh and also the guys in the England squad. You can't just expect to turn up and play and do well, you've got to put those hard yards in."
The 31-year-old's last outing in the sub-continent saw him lead England to an outstanding series win over India in 2012, while he scored 173 on his only previous Test in Chittagong in 2010.
After the match in Chittagong, the teams will head to Dhaka for the second and final Test beginning on October 28.
Teams
Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (capt), Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Mominul Haque, Mahmudullah Riyad, Shakib Al Hasan, Shuvagata Hom, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Shafiul Islam, Taijul Islam, Kamrul Islam, Nurul Hasan.
England: Alastair Cook (capt), Ben Duckett, Haseeb Hameed, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Gary Ballance, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Zafar Ansari, Gareth Batty, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Jake Ball.


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