Cook labels lack of centuries from England a 'concern'

Sir Alastair Cook has described England's failure to score centuries this summer as a concern, speaking after Day 2 of the third Test between England and Pakistan at Edgbaston, Birmingham England batters have managed 22 50-plus scores throughout the summer, but Ben Duckett's 113 against New Zealand at Trent Bridge remains the only hundred scored across six Tests. As exemplified in Edgbaston, despite posting 453 runs in their first innings in the third Test at Edgbaston, four England batters, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Dan Lawrence and Emilio Gay, failed to convert their fifties into centuries. Cook pointed to conditions and the ball staying hard throughout 80 overs as contributing factors, also labelling it as something that has caught up with the entire team. "I think it's a whole thing in the team at the minute, the lack of hundreds and whether that's down to the conditions they're facing and the fact that the ball is staying hard throughout the 80 overs, the majority of the time. I think it's just a little