Alastair Cook Player of England Team

Alastair Cook Biography

Alastair Nathan Cook born 25 December 1984 is an English cricketer. A left-handed opening batsman. He is the captain of the England Test team and former ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003. He played in a variety of England's youth teams from 2000 until his call up to the Test side in 2006. He normally fields at first slip.He is normally played cricketer

England national team in India as a last-minute replacement for Marcus Trescothick and debuted with a century. He made his debut at the age of 21 and went on to score 1,000 runs in his maiden year and become the youngest Englishman to reach 1,500, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 and 5,000 Test runs, making centuries in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh.

In early test career he came under criticism throughout 2008 for a lack of centuries. He replied in 2009 with two centuries, as well as a score of 95 against Australia to help seal England's first victory against them at Lord's since 1934. He took seven catches in the series, including the final wicket, to win the 2009 Ashes series. Cook went on to play another pivotal role in retaining the 2010-11 Ashes series, breaking records by scoring the second highest number of runs in a Test series by an.

Cook was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours.He is best cricket player.

On 30 May 2015, Cook became the leading run-scorer in Test matches for England, after surpassing Graham Gooch. In the second test, he also scored his 9000th test run, the first English test batsman to do so.