5 Best batting performances of Alastair Cook

5. 294 v India, 3^rd Test:

Cook was then at the prime of his form by scoring seven centuries in 18 Test innings showed his skill and passion for the game. Alastair Cook and Eoin Morgan, both centurions put up a 222-run partnership for the fourth wicket and showed complete dominance for the English side. He was eluded for not scoring a triple century when he was dismissed on 294 by Ishant Sharma, but his knock became the highest score by a batsman at Edgbaston surpassing Peter May’s 285 against West Indies in 1957. Andrew Strauss remembers it: “The key to that innings was Cook’s ability to maintain concentration and play the same way throughout – he didn’t really up the gears, he just kept batting in his usual non-fussy way.” It aided England in giving the match a fitting result when they beat India by an innings and 242 runs.