Alastair Cook, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetAlastair Cook
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1984
Place of Birth: Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Alastair Cook
- Sir Alastair Nathan Cook, (born 25 December 1984) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex County Cricket Club, and formerly for England in all international formats.
- A former captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams, he holds a number of English and international records.
- He is one of the most prolific batsmen of the modern era.
- Cook is the fifth highest Test run scorer of all time.Cook is England's most-capped player and has captained the team in an English record 59 Tests and 69 ODIs.
- He is the leading run-scorer in Test matches for England, and the youngest player to complete 12,000 Test runs (the sixth overall, and the only Englishman).
- Cook has scored a record 33 Test centuries for England and is the first England player to take part in 50 Test victories.
- A left-handed opening batsman (the highest scoring left-hander in Tests), he normally fields at first slip. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003.
- He played in several of England's youth teams from 2000 until his call up to the Test side in 2006.
- While touring in the West Indies with the ECB National Academy, Cook was called up to the England national team in India as a last-minute replacement for Marcus Trescothick and debuted, aged 21, with a century.
- He went on to score 1,000 runs in his maiden year and made centuries in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh.
- Cook played a pivotal role in England winning the 2009 Ashes series, and, after deputising as Test captain in 2010 and then taking ODI captaincy full-time, in retaining the Ashes in 2010-11. He was appointed captain of the Test team after fellow opener Andrew Strauss's retirement on 29 August 2012.
- Cook captained England to its first Test series victory in India since 1984–85.
- During the tour he became the first captain to score a century in each of his first five Tests in charge.
- On 30 May 2015, Cook became the leading run-scorer in Test matches for England, surpassing Graham Gooch (8900).
- After England's 2016 tour of Bangladesh and India, he stepped down as Test captain.
- Cook was appointed MBE in 2011 and upgraded to CBE in 2016 for services to cricket.
- On 24 May 2018 during the first Test against Pakistan, Cook equalled Allan Border's record for appearing in the greatest number of consecutive Test matches, with 153, surpassing it a week later in the second Test at Headingley.
- On 3 September 2018, Cook announced that his twelve-year international career would end at the conclusion of the series against India on 11 September 2018.
- In the 2019 New Year Honours, Cook was made a Knight Bachelor.On the occasion of England's 1000th Test in August 2018, he was named in the country's greatest Test XI by the ECB.
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