Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
Because he was England's best batsman in the Ashes - your question should really have been why are England's batsmen rusty.

PS which Lions batsmen were you referring to? Because the one's playing most recently in the West Indies (in entirely different conditions so would still be under-prepared) also bordered on the ****ing useless
Well Cook was attending to lambing season until about 2 weeks ago, apparently. Not exactly ideal prep for a test series!!