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Sir Alastair Nathan Cook CBE (born 25 December 1984) is an English former cricketer and former captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams. He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen in Test cricket.
13 paź 2023 · The man who posed naked in a women's magazine and played darts on stage at the World Championship. England is a nation of opening batters. Jack Hobbs, Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton.
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Sir Alastair Nathan Cook CBE (born 25 December 1984) is an English former cricketer and former captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams. He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen in Test cricket.
13 paź 2023 · Cook made his England Test bow aged just 21 in Nagpur against India after receiving a late call-up due to injury to Michael Vaughan, while Marcus Trescothick was suffering from a stress-related illness. Thrust into a pressure situation, Cook displayed grit, scoring 60 in the first innings, before striking a classy unbeaten 104 in the second.
6 wrz 2018 · With his feats in that winter etched forever into cricketing history, they take on an air of inevitability. This was Cook, destined since long before his ton on debut, to be the man who would break all national records, finally batting forever as we always knew he could. And yet it so nearly didn’t happen.
11 wrz 2018 · 'Most surreal four days of my life' – Alastair Cook Cook scripted his own fairytale at The Oval, scoring a determined century in his final Test innings to back up a fantastic 71 he made in the first dig, not only putting England firmly in the driver's seat, but also capping off a fine career.
