Alastair Cook Retires

[Slowboathome]

My abiding memory is of listening in the early hours of the morning in 2010-2011 Ashes down under when he and Jonathan Trott helped themselves to a ridiculous number of runs.

He sees like a lovely bloke.

[PhilboSE]

Yup, and he's a great commentator as well. Nicely self-deprecating, unlike Michael "when I was captain of the England cricket team" Vaughan...