Alastair Cook: prolific batsman with a choirboy smile and ruthless streak | Vic Marks

England’s top run-scorer, who has announced his retirement from Test cricket, made sure it was the bowlers who sweated

Alastair Cook always gave the impression he was able to concentrate more easily than any of his peers. Once set he was, like most of the great batsmen, a predictable run-making machine. He did not sweat physically or metaphorically. He just got on with the job and was a wonderfully reassuring presence but his capacity to remain intensely focused yet relaxed at the crease has become elusive over the past year.

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