Sir Alastair Cook
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2,875 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Sir Alastair Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But suddenly today, under pressure,
when he came on second ball, and again, the calmness he went about.
He didn't give a chance.
Joe gave two chances, or had two lies, really.
Not a chance.
Everything was played beautifully under his eyes, played the situation really well, and when the game started winning, I think he was at 50 run rate, whatever the strike rate, and then accelerated nicely.
So he's then suddenly, what today has done for me, he's delivered under pressure, so therefore he goes, you can't leave, I don't think you can leave a person out who's just got you over the game at a 60-odd, not out.
I don't think you can.
But because he's got the opportunity, he's grabbed it.
one of...
not quite sure what's just happened, the initial shock of it, the relief they've bowled them out finally, the frustration of what they've just experienced that last hour and a half to two hours where
it did go all right and it wasn't great.
So they have that frustration.
And then that's when this side and these four bowlers would have to, tomorrow, sit down and discuss what's happened and what they can do.
Because towards the end, and I've just seen Chris Wokes as well, and we've both just agreed, we couldn't tell you what the plan was for a lot of that last 90 minutes and what they were trying to do.
the field was set and I couldn't work it out and I think that's and you can get done by the tail and people can whack you and we were talking on the we were talking on the game has changed and it is very hard in those situations when people got a bit of a license because the ability to hit sixes it is hard it's not just as simple as hit bowling at the stumps and it'll eventually miss it however what we what I saw
today there was no plan and it got out of control and that is when you need your backroom staff that is when you need your coaches off the field to really step up it's all well and good sometimes when it's nipping around all over the top or you're on top of the opposition that is when the captain needs help and it's not an easy place and that's where I think Joe needed help that's where I needed help and you'd love I would love to have seen some message there of real leadership off the field actually to say right
coaching staff absolutely there's enough of them sat there
to go, right, we're sitting, because you sit away from the emotion of actually having to concentrate about catching and who's bowling out there and do all the actual work.
You're sat there, as they do, they've got their five or six iPads, they've got analysts there.
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