Sir Alastair Nathan Cook CBE (brought into the world 25 December 1984) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex County Cricket Club, and once in the past for England in every global configuration. A previous commander of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) groups, he holds various English and global records. He is perhaps the most productive batsmen of the cutting edge era[1] and the fifth most elevated Test run scorer ever.
Cook is England's most-covered player and has captained the group in an English record 59 Tests and 69 ODIs.[3] He is the main run-scorer in Test matches for England, and the most youthful player to finish 12,000 Test runs (the 6th by and large, and the solitary Englishman). Cook has scored a record 33 Test hundreds of years for England and is the principal England player to participate in 50 Test victories.[1] A left-gave opening batsman (the most noteworthy scoring left-hander in Tests), he regularly fields from the start slip.
Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his introduction for the primary XI in 2003. He played in a few of England's childhood groups from 2000 until his call up to the Test side in 2006. While visiting in the West Indies with the ECB National Academy, Cook was called up to the England public group in India as a very late trade for Marcus Trescothick and appeared, matured 21, with a century. He proceeded to score 1,000 runs in his lady year and made hundreds of years in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh.[4] Cook assumed a crucial part in England winning the 2009 Ashes arrangement, and, in the wake of nominating as Test commander in 2010 and afterward taking ODI captaincy full-time, in holding the Ashes in 2010-11.
