Alastair Cook retires from professional cricket, calls it a day after 20-year career
London, October 13: Former England skipper and their leading Test run-scorer Alastair Cook announced his retirement from professional cricket after a 20-year career on Friday. He made his first-team debut for Essex in May 2003. Speculations have been building on his retirement for the past few days as the 38-year-old batter continued to play in County Cricket with Essex.
"Today I am announcing my retirement and the end of my career as a professional cricketer," Cook said in a statement on the Essex website. "It is not easy to say goodbye. For more than two decades, cricket has been so much more than my job. It has allowed me to experience places I never dreamed I would go, be part of teams that have achieved things I would never have thought possible and, most importantly, created deep ...
