Derek Pringle questions whether an enforced change to his technique has made the batsman more vulnerable

Derek Pringle

Alastair Cook’s dozen achievement-packed years as England’s opening batsman will end this week, but was his time cut short by the Decision Review System? At 33, he is younger than Graham Gooch was when the latter’s Test career really took flight, which makes you wonder whether there was more to Cook’s retirement than simply that he’d “had enough”.
Batting took more out of Cook than most. Although naturally gifted with regard to e...