AN Cook Profile

General Information Full name Alastair Nathan Cook Born December 25, 1984, Gloucester Current age 26 years 41 days Major teams England, Bedfordshire, England Lions, England Under-19s, Essex, Marylebone Cricket Club Playing role Opening batsman Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling Style Right-arm slow Career Statistics Batting & Fielding Statistics Test ODI T20 Matches Played 65 26 4 Innings Played 115 26 4 Not Outs 7 0 0 Runs 5130 858 61 Highest 235* 102 26 Average 47.50 33.00 15.25 Balls Faced 10466 1202 54 St/R 49.01 71.38 112.96 100's 16 1 0 50's 24 5 0 4's 596 93 10 6's 5 1 0 Catches Taken 57 10 1 Stumpings Made 0 0 0 Bowling Statistics Test ODI T20 Matches Played 65 26 4 Innings Played 1 - - Balls 6 - - Runs 1 - - Wickets 0 - - Best Inning Bowling - - - Best Match Bowling - - - Average - - - Economy Rate 1.00 - - St/R - - - 4 Wickets 0 - - 5 Wickets 0 - - 10 Wickets 0 - - Profile Alastair Nathan Cook was born 25 December 1984. He is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who currently plays county cricket for Essex and Test cricket for England. A nuggety left-handed batsman, Alastair Cook has needed all his mental fortitude to overcome technical deficiencies and become a fixture with Andrew Strauss at the top of the order for England. Cook played for Essex's Academy and quickly made his debut for the first XI in 2003. He similarly played in a variety of England's youth teams from 2000 until his call up to the Test side in 2006. He was educated at Bedford School where he broke all manner of records with his classy batting. At each stage of his career he has been pushed in and the deep end and boy can he swim! He first played for his school First XI as a first year. When the MCC were a man short for their game against the school, Cook was drafted in and scored an unbeaten century against the 1st XI and was in the 1st XI for the next five years.