Graham Napier produced a mini-repeat of his Twenty20 heroics with a 34-ball 61 to lift Essex to 285 for 8 in their Friends Provident Trophy semi-final against Yorkshire. Alastair Cook warmed-up for the first Test against South Africa with 95, but...
Alastair Cook turned Essex's Friends Provident Trophy semi-final bash yesterday into a full-scale dress rehearsal for his appearance in Thursday's first Test against South Africa.
No batsman on view before a capacity Chelmsford crowd could have...
The Derbyshire attack is hardly comparable to the South African pace bombardment which will confront Alastair Cook in next week's first Test, but the opener could still draw considerable satisfaction from a season's-best innings of 95.
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LONDON: All eyes were on Kevin Pietersen, pushed into the England one-day captaincy of the final match of the series between England and New Zealand at Lord’s after Paul Collingwood’s suspension. It was his first trial as captain...
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - England opener Alastair Cook will miss the second limited-overs international against New Zealand with a shoulder injury
Cook is out of Wednesday's match at Edgbaston after struggling with the injury...
Andrew Strauss has been added to England's squad for Saturday's third match in the NatWest Series against New Zealand.
The Middlesex left-hander joins the squad in Bristol on Friday as cover for Alastair Cook, who is yet to recover from a...
Background
Alastair Nathan Cook (born 25 December 1984 in Gloucester) is an England cricketer, a left-handed batsman, who currently plays county cricket for Essex and test and one-day cricket for England. On 22 December 2007 Cook became the first Englishman to score seven centuries before his 23rd birthday and on 27 July 2007 became the youngest England batsman to reach 1500 Test runs and as of March 12th 2008 became the youngest to score 2000 runs against New Zealand at Wellington. He has scored centuries in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan and the West Indies.
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