{"id":10337,"date":"2016-07-16T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2016-07-16T05:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T05:00:57","slug":"alastair-cook-becomes-highest-run-getter-as-test-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/16\/alastair-cook-becomes-highest-run-getter-as-test-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"ALASTAIR COOK BECOMES HIGHEST RUN-GETTER AS TEST OPENER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/8910857873_875dc80eba_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan Tour of England 2016, England and Wales Cricket Board, Pakistan Cricket Board, England vs Pakistan, ENGvsPAK, ENGvPAK, Test Cricket, Alastair Cook, Misbah ul haq, Cook, Root, Hales, Younis, Misbah, Azhar Ali, Anderson, Broad, Finn, Amir, Wahab, Yasir, Mickey Arthur, Trevor Bayliss\" width=\"776\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alastair Cook scored 81 in the first innings against Pakistan at Lord\u2019s on Friday. He, thus, became the highest run-getter as a Test opener with 9630 runs at an average of 46.52 in 123 Tests, going past Sunil Gavaskar\u2019s tally of 9607 runs at an average of 50.29 in 119 Tests.\u00a0Cook joined Mike Atherton as the only two England skippers to boast of 30 scores of fifty and more. Cook has 10 tons and 20 fifties as England skipper, while Atherton has 8 tons and 22 fifties as the captain.<\/p>\n<p>During his innings of 81, Cook became the highest run-getter against Pakistan in Test. Cook has 1260 runs at an average of 48.46 and surpassed DI Gower\u2019s tally of 1185 against Pakistan in 27 Test innings.\u00a0Yasir Shah took 5\/62 on the second day\u2019s play at Lord\u2019s. Before Yasir Shah, Indian leg-spinner Bhagwath Chandrasekhar took 5\/127 against England at Lord\u2019s in 1967.This was his fourth four-wicket haul against England in 5 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alastair Cook scored 81 in the first innings against Pakistan at Lord\u2019s on Friday. He, thus, became the highest run-getter as a Test opener with 9630 runs at an average of 46.52 in 123 Tests, going past Sunil Gavaskar\u2019s tally of 9607 runs at an average of 50.29 in 119 Tests.\u00a0Cook joined Mike Atherton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":10338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8,170,140],"tags":[807,194,867,109,1375],"class_list":["post-10337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-alastair-cook","tag-england","tag-engvspak","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-tour-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10339,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions\/10339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}