Sir Alastair Cook
speaker
2,875 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Sir Alastair Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not 'cause you want to, but you need to.
And sometimes you have to be told that as a player.
You can't tell me not one of those players wanted to play, deep down.
But they didn't want to go against
regime and say actually no 'cause I mean yes, new sort of news I actually got the news of true.
I did get it.
You know, actually in terms of like you go on a long tour, you know they're towards the back end of the tour, those three b back to back games at the end are hard.
You gotta you do have to cur conserve some energy and and and refresh yourself.
But when I saw that tray of beers going on that on my on my app on my phone, the guys in nice sunglasses, nice caps, tops off, nice shorts going and I thought, That is just not a good look.
dull, just use that adjective.
Um Victor Meldrew.
Were they blindsided a little bit by the success they had in that first eighteen months?
Because they literally like Yeah.
Did did they then start believing that they had reinvented cricket a little bit?
Correct.
And and that cult I don't want to use the word cult, I don't know but I have, but they kind of just started believing their own hype a bit and therefore McCullum could just say, We're gonna do this and because they'd won all those games, quick key said, Yeah.
gone then and it kept and and then it got to the stage well oh could we won that last series two years ago we won that and it it did just take they almost like three wheeled it and that they needed that that is when Rob Key after the initial burst of success then that is when the real quality I'm talking the top end leaders recognise that it's worked for a little bit 'cause you know it's amazing how Captain comes in after after na after NASA, strict captain got England back onto that
Like, you know, central contract Fletcher got on going.
Who was the next catch it?
A bit more relaxed, bit more well after that was Straussy again.
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