Cool Cook crushes Ireland

ALASTAIR Cook celebrated his England call-up for this week’s Test against Sri Lanka in fine style against Ireland at Chelmsford yesterday.

The 21-year-old left-hander struck an unbeaten 91 from 106 deliveries as Essex coasted to an eight wicket C&G Trophy win with six of their 43 overs to spare.

Cook did experience a few anxious moments early on as both John Mooney and Trent Johnston passed the outside of his bat, but once he settled in, the Irish were left fighting a losing battle.