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Alastair Cook, who was last seen playing for his national team England in September 2018, is set to retire from all forms of cricket. Cook is currently playing for the Essex team in County Championship Division One. Alastair Cook has played a total of 350 matches in First-Class cricket for a period of 20 years overall and apart from that he has played 178 games in List-A cricket also.
Alastair Cook made his Test debut for the England team in March 2006 while playing against India at Nagpur and a few months later (in June month) he also made his ODI debut for England while facing Sri Lanka at Manchester. Alastair Cook also played 4 T20I matches and 32 T20 games overall. Recently, reports have emerged that Cook will take retirement from all forms of cricket at the end of the 2023 county season.
Let's have a look at Alastair Cook's numbers amid his retirement rumours:
Most runs in Test cricket:
Sachin Tendulkar - 15921 (329 inns)
Ricky Ponting - 13378 (287 inns)
Jacques Kallis - 13289 (280 inns)
Rahul Dravid - 13288 (286 inns)
Alastair Cook - 12472 (291 inns)
Alastair Cook remains to be the fifth-highest run-scorer in Test cricket history. Cook has played 161 matches in his career overall.
Alastair Cook has scored 26615 runs in his FC career overall from 615 innings.
Alastair Cook FC debut game: Essex vs Nottinghamshire played from 3rd to 5th September 2003
Alastair Cook's career so far:
Mts Inns Runs Avg S.R 50s 100s
FC 350 615 26615 46.69 50.49 125 74
List-A 178 176 6510 39.93 80.46 38 13
T20s 32 30 892 31.85 127.61 5 1
Tests 161 291 12472 45.35 46.95 57 33
ODIs 92 92 3204 36.40 77.13 19 5
T20Is 4 4 61 15.25 112.96 0 0
Alastair Cook's double hundreds in Test cricket:
235* vs AUS in Brisbane, 2010
294 vs IND in Birmingham, 2011
263 vs PAK in Abu Dhabi, 2015
243 vs WI in Birmingham, 2017
244* vs AUS in Melbourne, 2017
