The four-time Ashes winner barely perspired.
Even back in December 2010 after seven hours in the 40 degree Adelaide heat, the man who would become a four-time Ashes winner – twice as captain – barely perspired as he delivered his second successive hundred of a memorably victorious tour.
Overall the left-hander compiled 26,643 first-class runs with 74 hundreds in 352 games spanning 20 years. He also played 178 List A games and 32 T20 matches, scoring 14 centuries across both of those formats. In March 2006 he was rushed 6,000 miles from an England A tour of the Caribbean as an injury replacement to make his Test debut against India in Nagpur. He took it all in his stride as he scored 60 at his first attempt and then an unbeaten second-innings century.
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