Alastair Cook fails again as MCC lose heavily to Yorkshire in Dubai

Alastair Cook failed again as the MCC lost inside three days to county champions Yorkshire in the traditional season-opener in Abu Dhabi.

The England captain, who made just three in the first innings, mustered five in his second dig on Tuesday before his attempted pull-shot off Jack Brooks flew straight to Adil Rashid at mid-wicket. 

And after conceding a first-innings deficit of 151, the MCC were skittled for 220 as Brooks (3-22) and Rashid (4-72) took the bowling honours - England's leg-spin call-up finishing with two wickets in two balls.

Cook's former opening partner for England, Nick Compton, offered significant resistance, hitting 74 from 139 balls before he was caught behind by Jonny Bairstow off young all-rounder Will Rhodes, while James Hildreth also also looked good for his 49 until he was trapped lbw by Rashid to become his second victim.

But there was little else and Yorkshire then needed 20 overs under lights against the pink ball to knock off the 70 required and win the match by nine wickets, with first-innings centurion Adam Lyth - Cook's prospective new Test opening partner after being named in the squad to take on the West Indies - finishing the match with successive boundaries off Adam Riley for an unbeaten 46.

Cook's form ahead of the three-Test tour of the Caribbean remains a concern.

He described England's decision to replace him as World Cup captain as "probably wrong" last week despite a miserable run with the bat in one-day internationals and he remains without an international hundred in any format since May 2013.