MARTIN JOHNSON
Sometime in the not too distant future, when Alastair Cook is pushing a trolley down the aisle in his local Tesco, some vaguely familiar chap will come up and offer him a cheery greeting. “Sorry, do I know you?” Cook will say. And the reply will come back: “Keaton Jennings. We opened the batting together in one or two Test matches.”
Jennings is Cook’s 11th opening partner for England since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012, and the odds are, in a week’s time, that he’ll be having a chat in mid-pitch with No.12. Normally, the conversation...