Sir Alastair Cook
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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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And you're allowed to make jumps, you're allowed to improve.
Like Harry Brooke, you're allowed to improve as a person, you're allowed to improve as a leader.
So I just really want to look at this side and go, yeah, do you know what they've they've made small, small, small steps, and then you get something.
And that's what happened.
I'll go back to 2000 and I can't remember how many times I told the story.
We got bowled up for 51 against a fairly uh an okay West.
Same group of players, the same squad with one or two things different became World Number One side two two and a half years later.
So that is what I I want this side.
Not saying they become they could become the world s I want to see little small steps getting better and better and then special things can occur.
What's your outlook, Vaughn?
Yeah, I I I and I watched those last couple of innings he played for England and I was actually sad because he wasn't he's a far better player than that.
Far better and actually one of the things which I saw when I first started when he first came into Essex was he was one of the only guys seventeen, eighty-nine, twenty, like playing the situation incredibly well.
I think as a seventeen year old got his first hundred, then it when we uh and then when we first get
to to save us the game and g that gave everyone else confidence that we do belong in the first division after ten years in the second division and and just watching him back like that was just I was like yeah that's yeah you you dream about playing for England and then you basically give up and say I'm just gonna hip whack my way out of trouble.
Yeah is he a natural open no he wasn't but he did open when he was a youngster so that's what fr that did frustrate me.
I'm glad he's got another chance I I think
he'll be positive because these runs he scored this year at Surrey have been
at close close to runnable ish at certain times.
He has got a uh I think one of his hundreds a bit slow, so I I th I don't expect him to block it.
But he he he will be the one that that
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