Alastair Cook Retires from International Cricket

[GotSpin]

Still have nightmares from 10/11...

 

[Kirkut]

Still have nightmares from 10/11...

Still you guys were lucky not to see the best of him which we saw in 2012. That memory of him dancing down the track and lofting Ojha over long on for six is still fresh.

 

[Engle]

Cook made the right decision. In fact, I was hoping he would announce his retirement after the 4th Test, with the series won.
Otherwise, it becomes a messy situation when the calls start to grow louder.

This way, he can leave with his head high and ride into the sunset with his dignity intact.

Well done Cook, you've made your mark

 

[GotSpin]

Still you guys were lucky not to see the best of him which we saw in 2012. That memory of him dancing down the track and lofting Ojha over long on for six is still fresh.

England were 1/517

You can never erase those types of scars

 

[Kirkut]

Of the cut shot, perhaps.

I've always felt that the adjustment a non Asian batsman has to make on spinning subcontinent tracks is the same as an Asian batsman has to make on bouncier decks outside Asia, and that's where I rate Cook so highly, he looked so much in control against spin. Matthew Hayden played spin superbly too but he was more in attacking mode only, Cook looked so much in control and at ease against us in 2012 that he didn't need to take on our spinners to make them ineffective. When he was run out in 2nd innings at Kolkata, Manjrekar jokes "Well that's one way to get him out." And yeah that cut shot he plays against spinners is visually pleasing.

 

[Kirkut]

England were 1/517

You can never erase those types of scars

True, especially after Siddle gets a hat-trick on his birthday and bowls them out cheaply in 1st innings.

 

[marc71178]

Cook made the right decision. In fact, I was hoping he would announce his retirement after the 4th Test, with the series won.

I think he's said that he didn't announce it immediately because he didn't want to overshadow Moeen's performance or the series win in the media the day after the game.

 

[GIMH]

Top guy, top player. Very sad to see him go. I remember his debut as clear as day and have been struggling with the concept of him being one of the old players tbh, what with him being my age.

Will miss him, one of my all time favourite sportsmen.

 

[Prince EWS]

Top guy, top player. Very sad to see him go. I remember his debut as clear as day and have been struggling with the concept of him being one of the old players tbh, what with him being my age.

Wow if you were going to copy my post you could've at least liked it first.

It always just makes me feel old when players who I remember watching on debut in their late teens or early 20s retire after a full career.

That debut was perhaps quite fittingly in India, and I think anyone who watched it and was forced to make a guess as to how his career would go and what sort of player he'd become afterwards would've made a pretty accurate prediction. He made a fifty and an unbeaten ton, both really slowly on a slow road that ended in a draw, but it was his unwavering concentration and immediate ease of adaptation to alien conditions that really stood out from such a young man on debut, and these were features of his both his batting and his captaincy right throughout his career.

 

[Hicheal Michael]

How long will it take Cook to score 38 FC 100's?

Hardly out of the question imo.

 

[Adders]

I've been thinking all day what to post in here, but it's all been said already. To say I'm gutted would be an understatement, one of crickets genuine good guy's and he's been an absolute ambassador and credit to the game. Think I'll miss him more than any other in my time of following England and I have no doubt at all that over the next few months and years (as that revolving door of mediocrity continues) we'll all be wishing he'd hung in there for a bit longer.

I'd donate a kidney to see him to ton up big daddy Cook style one last time at The Oval........and I'd slap any ****er around the head with it that says anything about dead rubbers or flat tracks (if it is one).

 

[Adders]

 

[Groundking]

I don't want the Chef to retire, I know nothing but Cook opening up for England, it's going to be so strange

 

[TheJediBrah]

I'd donate a kidney to see him to ton up big daddy Cook style one last time at The Oval........and I'd slap any ****er around the head with it that says anything about dead rubbers or flat tracks (if it is one).

I hope he does ton up just so I can say this

 

[harsh.ag]

He made the England blazer look really good. It just seemed made for someone like him.

 

[King Pietersen]

What a ****ing man. Will be missed at the top of the order, the longevity has been remarkable. Good luck to him. **** knows who we replace him with though.

 

[BoyBrumby]

How typical of the ultimate team man that he should forever lay to rest the hoary "who should open with Cook?" question that's been puzzling selectors since Strauss retired.

WAFG.

 

[Flem274*]

i want to see adders post evidence of the kidney donation if he tons up

 

[Adders]

i want to see adders post evidence of the kidney donation if he tons up

This can be arranged, not sure how I'll explain the demise of our cat to to the family but I'm sure I will come up with something.

 

[Bijed]

i want to see adders post evidence of the kidney donation if he tons up

Reminds me that Howe_zat never did eat his shoe, for whatever reason he said he would. Hope Adders giving up his kidney persuades him to finally do so.