• Essex opener made 150 against Cambridge University last week
• ‘I’ve had my time. I’ve had an amazing journey’
It might be a stretch to see Alastair Cook as the Billy Bonds of cricket, although the England and now exclusively Essex hero shares with the long-ago West Ham favourite the old-fashioned virtues of loyalty and commitment. Cook, a classic one-club loyalist, has never played his serious cricket anywhere but for Essex and England – and, no, he does not envisage an international comeback.
“I’ve played my last game for England,” he said on Tuesday. He looked like he meant it.
Written by Kevin Mitchell
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/apr/02/alastair-cook-england-essex-county-championship-cricket under the title “‘I’ve played my last game for England’: Alastair Cook relishing county life”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
