Alastair Cook's appetite for runs

Shortly after reaching his hundred, Alastair Cook received a straight delivery and played yet another forward defensive stroke. We liked that.

It said that just because England were 400 ahead and he had his hundred, there were still days to go in this match, so Ali Cook was just going to carry on doing what he'd been doing all day: Staying in and scoring the odd run.

We admire professionalism. But only in others.

England v West Indies, third Test, day three at Old Trafford
England 370 (Ian Bell 97, Alastair Cook 60)
West Indies 229 (Shivnarine Chanderpaul 50, Monty Panesar 4-50)
England 313 (Alastair Cook 106, Kevin Pietersen 68, Darren Sammy 7-66)
West Indies 22-1