Alastair Cook, a cricketing legend for England, is said to be considering calling it quits after this year’s county cricket season, which is set to end next week.
Alastair Cook set to retire: Cook, who is 38 years old, wants to win one last championship with Essex before calling it a career. Cook has amassed 808 runs in 23 innings this season with a 36.72 batting average, one century, and three fifty-singles.
According to the Daily Mail, he might announce his departure formally as early as Friday in order to avoid drawing undue attention to himself.
Cook plans to shift into the position of a cricket pundit, so he won’t fully leave sport behind. He has already worked on the BBC’s Test Match Special.
He accomplished notable milestones throughout his illustrious career, including leading England to Ashes wins over Australia and becoming England’s all-time highest run-scorer with an astounding 12,472 runs in 162 Test matches. His efforts to England’s Ashes victory in Australia in 2011 were crucial, and he scored an exceptional 766 runs over the course of the five-Test series.
Following a slump in performance, Cook announced his retirement from international cricket in 2018. He finished his England career with a remarkable score of 147 against India. With this effort, he became just the second player to hit twin fifties in their first and last Test matches, and the fifth batter overall to score a century in both his debut and last Test matches. His contributions were also essential to England defeating India 4-1 in the series.
Cook remained a key member of Essex County Cricket Club even after leaving international action, topping the team in runs scored in 2019 and 2020. He reached the amazing milestone of 26,000 First-Class runs in his lengthy career earlier this year.