Alastair Cook retrospective from his school days | The Spirit of Cricket

2,019 views · Published 16 May 2013 · 2:51 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: Lord's Cricket Ground · 2013 · Sports

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Alastair Cook's cricket coach at school and current Bedford School headmaster were at Lord's to watch their former pupil in his first match as captain on home soil as England take on New Zealand. Lord's Cricket caught up with them to find out what Cook was like as a schoolboy and a young cricketer.

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