Alastair cook autobiography meaning

A revealing and entertaining book by a charismatic and gifted young cricketer, including the full story of the 2009 Ashes triumph.

Alastair Cook forced his way into the record books in 2006, becoming one of the few England players to score a hundred on debut. By going on to become the only Englishman to hit seven Test centuries before his twenty-third birthday, Alastair found himself in the company of the greatest players in cricketing history.

STARTING OUT is Alastair s personal account of this speedy climb to stardom. Equally gifted at music, he opted for cricket as a schoolboy and the young left-hander broke record after record as he progressed to become the first-choice opener for Essex.

Now an integral part of the England team with over forty caps, Alastair is perfectly placed to describe the highs and lows of life within the England cricket camp during one of the most exciting and turbulent periods of their history, both on and off the field.

Updated to include the full story of the 2009 Ashes series, STARTING OUT amounts to a fascinating insight into life as one of the rising stars of English cricket.

HE’S a former choir boy. He has earned comparisons with Steve Waugh. He just broke a record owned by Sachin Tendulkar.

For a man that keeps the game very simple, Alastair Cook has built a surprisingly diverse legacy that leaves him difficult to pin down as a cricketer.

Cook enjoyed a red-letter day this week as he became just the 12th man in history to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket, and the youngest to do so, surpassing the mark set by Sachin Tendulkar.

At 31 years of age the England captain remains a distinct possibility of chasing down Tendulkar’s seemingly unreachable mark of 15,921 career runs, but for now the England skipper is content to take in the fanfare surrounding his special milestone. And more importantly for him, a series victory.

It’s easy, especially for Australian fans who have come to known him as a dour England captain, to forget the rollercoaster journey Cook has taken since making his international debut in 2006.

We look at the distinct parts of Cook’s career that have seen him reach this point

THE CHOIR BOY

Cook fulfils the stereotype of the posh Pom, having attended independent schools as a child that left him with an accent that seems closer to the Queen’s than it does to most professional sportsmen’s.

He played the piano, clarinet and saxophone as a teenager but the musical talent with which he’s most associated is singing, having been a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral school in London.

He had the honour of performing in front of Queen Elizabeth while he was there and went on to be the president of the music society at his prestigious high school, Bedford.

You can be sure this gave Cook’s cricketing opponents plenty of sledging fodder but here’s the thing about the boy from Wickham Bishops – sledging seems to have no real effect on him at all.

Australia’s fierce fielders tried every angle they could during Cook’s early days in the Test arena but they were

Sir Alastair Cook makes a shocking revelation about David Warner in his autobiography. He suggests that Steve Smith was in the know all along.

Sir Alastair Cook’s autobiography hits hard. It is a brutal review of oneself and the game of cricket that could do well to pay heed to the assessment. The honesty with which Cook has expressed himself is refreshing. However, it is the little anecdote regarding David Warner and Steve Smith that seems to have caused a flutter.

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Having played in 7 Ashes during his career, Cook is very well aware of the competitive nature of the Australians. A nature that almost trades morals for victory as was evident by the sandpaper gate during the South Africa series. However, Cook has suggested that something as sinister was happening before and perhaps the incident wasn’t the first time the Aussies had resorted to such measures.

Sir Alastair Cook makes a shocking revelation about David Warner in his autobiography

Sir Alastair Cook, per the Guardian, wrote in his autobiography:

“David Warner, a couple of beers into his celebration, mentioned that he used substances attached to the strapping on his hand to accelerate the deterioration of the ball during a first-class match. I looked at Steve Smith who shot a glance that said: ‘Ooh, you shouldn’t have said that.”

Did the Australians use sandpaper to tamper with the ball before they were caught doing so in Cape Town in March 2018? “Stuart Broad sums it up pretty well and says they got the ball to reverse swing in that Ashes. Why change what you’ve been doing? Why suddenly use sandpaper?

People know what was going on. But it’s been the best thing for Australian cricket because they realised it wasn’t acceptable. The win-at-all-costs culture they created isn’t what the Austra