County Championship team of the week: Alastair Cook included

The county cricket season is in full swing, with many already putting their hand up for international honours or at least inspiring their side to early season success.

But who in particular has grabbed the headlines this week? We pick our County Championship team of the week for week two.

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Alastair Cook (Essex)

You can't keep him out of the headlines at the moment, sadly more down to his choice of headgear that his weight of runs. A hardly-heavy return of one in Essex's first innings was nearly repeated in the second, as Cook was dropped by Sussex's Danny Briggs on the same score, but England's skipper bounced back, striking a crucial 127 not out - his second hundred in two County Championship games - to earn Essex a valuable draw with the game on the line on day four. The context of those runs see him sneak in ahead of Gloucestershire's Chris Dent (180), and former international opening partner, Yorkshire's Adam Lyth (111).

Sam Robson (Middlesex)

Another of Cook's ex-England openers, Robson, does make the cut. There's simply no way you can leave out a guy who has scored 337 total runs. Robson's 231 in the first innings was followed 106 in the second in Middlesex's draw with Warwickshire and is enough to see him force his way in to our team of the week, but could it also see him back in England's Test team come May? Perhaps not, but it helps his cause nonetheless. Sussex's Chris Nash and Derbyshire's Chesney Hughes are others unfortunate to miss out on an opener's spot in our line-up, having almost hit two hundreds in their respective games. Nash notching 119 and 92, Hughes hitting 91 and 137 not out.

James Vince (Hampshire)

Another with half an eye on England's squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka is Hampshire's Vince. A regular in England's white-ball squads, question marks remained over Vince's ability to step up in the longer format having only hit one hundred and averaged 28.58 in Hampshire's return to Division One in 2015, but Vince has started well this year, striking a vital 119 against the reigning county champions no less, and having come to the crease with his side 9-1 following Yorkshire's mammoth first innings score of 593-9 declared.

Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire)

From a possible future England number three, to one from the past. Trott rolled back the years with a 'daddy' hundred for Warwickshire, although batting one place lower in the order for his county and scoring at a not exactly vintage Trott strike-rate of 75.77. Following Middlesex's 452 in the first innings, Warwickshire were in real trouble at 173-6, but Trott's 219 - along with an equally important 81 by Keith Barker, but more on that in a bit - saw the side manage to surpass Middlesex's score.

Wayne Madsen (Derbyshire)

Hughes may have been unfortunate to miss out on a place in our team, but Derbyshire are at least represented by Wayne Madsen, whose 150 in the first innings helped them on their way to a first innings score of 444. Sure Gloucestershire surpassed it fairly comfortably with 563 runs of their own, but Derbyshire were at least never in danger of defeat thanks to Madsen's initial efforts. He added 27 unbeaten runs in the second innings as the game ended in a draw, the red ink further boosting his early season average with the blade.

Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire)

Bairstow has comfortably picked up where he left off for Yorkshire last summer, and for England over the winter for that matter. His 246 first-innings runs were a career-best in first class cricket, hugely encouraging signs for England ahead of that first Test against Sri Lanka in a month's time. A special mention though to Lancashire's young wicketkeeper Alex Davies, unfortunate to miss out, after a more than handy 55 in their win over Nottinghamshire, and Tim Ambrose, who made only six runs for Warwickshire, but did take his first ever wicket, which is always fun!

Keith Barker (Warwickshire)

It was another hugely impressive showing by Barker for Warwickshire following on from his five wickets before lunch on the opening day of the season. While still impressive with the ball in the draw with Middlesex this week - taking 2-78 in the first innings and 2-27 in the second - it was Barker's exploits with the bat that really stood out, scoring 81 hugely important runs in a 143-run partnership with Trott for the seventh wicket as Warwickshire recovered from 173-6 to 468 all out. Another left-handed batsmen, Hampshire's Sean Ervine, can feel a little aggrieved that his 123 equally vital lower-order runs in the draw with Yorkshire doesn't earn him a spot in our side, but Barker's skill with the ball just trumps him.

Liam Norwell (Gloucestershire)

Liam Plunkett is another unfortunate to miss out, having smashed an 82-ball hundred in Yorkshire's draw with Hampshire. However, Plunkett made his 126 runs coming in with his side going along nicely at 348-6 and his partner, Bairstow, already with 145 runs to his name. Plus, Plunkett took only two wickets in the match as Hampshire batted resiliently for a draw. Pipping him to this spot is Norwell, who tallied a further two wickets, and his 102 batting at three as nightwatchman evoked memories of Alex Tudor and his near hundred for England against New Zealand in 1999.

Neil Wagner (Lancashire)

What a way to announce yourself to county cricket! All eyes were on the England double-act of James Anderson and Stuart Broad competing on opposing sides of Lancashire and Nottinghamshire's Old Trafford tussle, but left-armer Wagner stole the show with 6-66 for Lancs in the first innings while Anderson went wicketless, and then took a further 5-45 in the second. Match figures of 11-111 may worry the more superstitious of you out there, but it was enough to earn Lancashire a win at the first attempt back in Division One.

Clint McKay (Leicestershire)

Leicestershire were the only other team to earn a win this week - yes, Leicestershire! - and much is owed to Australian quick, Clint McKay. The leader of their attack did just that, leading the way with six first innings wickets for 73 runs as Glamorgan were bowled out for 348. McKay then smashed 65 important lower-order runs before taking a further 2-38 in the second innings. Crucial wickets they were too, the first two of the innings seeing their Welsh hosts slip to 16-2 when still trailing 63. Leicestershire would eventually skittle them out for 191 and chase down the 113 runs required with ease on the final day.

Jamie Porter (Essex)

Following on from career-best first class match bowling figures of 7-112 in the win over Gloucestershire last week, Porter again took seven. He didn't better his previous haul, with his wickets against Sussex costing 165, but he did return his first ever first class five-for, with 5-82 in the second innings, in spite of being bowled into the ground by skipper Ryan ten Doeschate on day three. Porter was into his 27th over when he took the final wicket, one of 51 shared between himself and Graham Napier - who also took five-for - out of Sussex's 71 in the innings.

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