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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His technique is a bit unusual and a bit and he'll get out in unorthodox ways 'cause it looks ugly when it doesn't come off.
It's how he then w a couple of low scores, how he handles that now.
But he needs he needs a coup he's he's got these three games, isn't he, you feel?
Three games of score, some runs, and if he does, he'll carry on.
If he doesn't I think he'll then get a bit parked as not quite good enough for test cricket.
Yeah and I think we went through a stage I've always you do want to try and back people more times than not, but it's certainly when things don't go quite so well, those last couple of years they just played the same team over and over again.
There was no accountability for that.
And I think going back to the basics, what what breeds better performances is competition unfortunately.
Like you need and it's that is the nature of the test match piece, the nature of any high
Elite sport when Emilia Gay's on that fine thing comes in, Davey, everyone's excited about gets a good 50 on a tough wicket, brilliant.
Everyone's like, yeah, you know, it's a good looks really that scores well.
Look, has a couple of dodgy is test matches, has to bat at seven in one of the games.
But now, in his fourth game, people are like, God, if he crosses himself off and nicks a couple early or gets LVW.
Unfortunately, that is the difference of playing international.
cricket and how you handle that and if you ca and that's what we're about to see and that's what I like.
I love that bit of it 'cause it I know how hard it is but I like watching people having to deal with it 'cause you can't run away from it.
This side has run away from pressure.
Like tried to take all the pressures off players and guess what you can't?
Because look, it's full house, big, big important game.
There's pressure when you play for England, so bring it on and I'm excited to see who comes through it.
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