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Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE (born 25 December 1984) is an English cricketer. A left-handed opening batsman, he is the captain of the England Test team and former ODI captain, and plays county cricket for Essex. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003. He played in a variety of England's youth teams from 2000 until his call up to the Test side in 2006. He normally fields at first slip. While touring in the West Indies with the ECB National Academy, Cook was called up to the England national team in India as a last-minute replacement for Marcus Trescothick and debuted with a century. He made his debut at the age of 21 and went on to score 1,000 runs in his maiden year and become the youngest Englishman to reach 1,500, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 and 5,000 Test runs, making centuries in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh. Despite Cook's run scoring exploits in his early test career, he came under criticism throughout 2008 for a lack of centuries; he replied in 2009 with two centuries, as well as a score of 95 against Australia to help seal England's first victory against them at Lord's since 1934. He took seven catches in the series, including the final wicket, to win the 2009 Ashes series. After deputising as Test captain in 2010 and then taking ODI captaincy full-time, Cook went on to play another pivotal role in retaining the 2010-11 Ashes series, breaking records by scoring the second highest number of runs in a Test series by an Englishman, including his maiden first-class double-hundred and two further hundreds, and batting for over 35 hours during the series.〔 He was appointed as the captain of the Test team after fellow opener Andrew Strauss' retirement on 29 August 2012. Cook captained England to its first Test series victory on Indian soil since 1984–85.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=England end 28-year drought with 2–1 win )〕 During the tour he broke the record for most Test centuries for England, 23 and became the first captain to score a century in each of his first five Tests in charge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=India v England: record-breaker Alastair Cook scores 23rd Test century to put tourists firmly in control of third Test )〕 On 28 December 2013, Alastair Cook became the youngest player to complete 8000 Test runs, 21 days younger than Sachin Tendulkar. Cook was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours. On 30 May 2015, Cook became the leading run-scorer in Test matches for England, after surpassing Graham Gooch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alastair Cook: Captain becomes England's leading Test run scorer )〕 In the second test against New Zealand at Headingley, he also scored his 9000th test run, the first English test batsman to do so. As a player, Alastair Cook is the only England cricketer in history to be involved in 50 Test victories. ==Early life and education== Born in Gloucester, Alastair Cook is one of several players of mixed Anglo-Welsh heritage to play for England; his mother Stephanie is a teacher from Swansea, while his father Graham worked as a BT engineer as well as being a village cricketer. Cook is a keen musician. By the age of eight, he was learning the clarinet, and joined St Paul's Cathedral School in London, an independent school connected to the cathedral, as a chorister, where he boarded under a rigorous schedule of rehearsals, whilst also learning the clarinet.〔 Cook later claimed the amount of focus and concentration required to keep practising while undergoing regular school hours helped with his batting. As a boy, his family lived in Wickham Bishops in Essex.〔Alastair Cook, ''Starting Out – My Story So Far'' (autobiography), p.1.〕 During his summer holidays, he would play cricket for nearby Maldon Cricket Club, and by the age of 11 he was already playing for their adult side on the Third XI. He played sporadically for them over seven years, with an average of 168 in his final year at a club of which he is now an honorary life member.〔 Cook's musical flair led to him being granted a scholarship to Bedford School, an independent school for boys in the county town of Bedford, in Bedfordshire, when he was 13, also as a boarder. While being educated in Bedford, he also learned to play piano and saxophone.〔 However, music was soon eclipsed when the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) came to play against the Bedford XI. The visiting side were a man short and drafted the 14-year-old new boy to play against his school; Cook scored a century.〔〔 Over the next four years, he hit 17 centuries and two double-hundreds, to total 4,396 runs at an average of 87.90, captaining the cricket team in his final year under coach Jeremy 'Boris' Farrell, as well as being president of the music society. He also gained three A-Levels and nine GCSEs in his time there.〔 In his final year at Bedford, in 2003, he scored 1,287 runs for the school, including two unbeaten double-hundreds, averaging 160.87 to take the school record.〔 After his international success, Cook returned for an Old Boys match at Bedford in 2008, playing for the HM Ultimate XI.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cricket at Bedford )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alastair Cook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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