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In 100 Tests, Langer had made 7,393 runs at 45 with 22 tons; in 97 Tests, Cook has 7,801 runs at 47 with 25 tons.

'Starting Out: My Story So Far', by Alastair Cook, is published by Hodder & Stoughton, priced £19.99 Cook tour: By numbers 35 tests Cook made his debut for England against India in Nagpur in 2006.

Asked about his side's inconsistency in results – they have now become the first team to have a sequence of WLWLWLW in seven Tests – Cook replied: "I don't mind if it goes on for nine matches, because it means we regain the Ashes".

Asked what had made the difference after such a disappointing showing in the Tests, Cook said: "I don't know.

Cook believes it is a positive step, comparing it to when the team had three captains for the three different forms of the game - Andrew Strauss in Tests, Cook in 50-over cricket and Stuart Broad in charge for the Twenty20 format.

But can they pass the tests cooked up by engineers at an office park in New Jersey?

David Pazmiño, a test cook, spent four months stir-and-lifting the New England boardwalk confection, trying to solve the problem of the ultraprecise temperatures required in candy making.

SurveyMonkey, the software that keeps them in touch with readers, informs every aspect of the editorial process — when a test cook wondered whether most readers had access to shallots, SurveyMonkey told them they did.

The recipe from a 1920s weight-loss advertisement looked promising enough, but in a perverse way: "It sounded so unappetizing that I felt compelled to give it a shot," wrote test cook Katrina Martin, a library technical-services assistant.

As it happens, "America's Test Kitchen" is an actual place inside Kimball's company, Boston Common Press, and it's a hangar-size expanse of gleaming culinaria where throngs of aproned test cooks and interns turn the wheels of his enterprise.

"The only thing we have changed is the approach to back-to-back Tests," said Cook. "All those losses have come in the second game of a run of back-to-back Tests.