Alastair Cook reflects back to his retirement Alastair Cook has been considering retirement for 6 months yet says he cried as he told England team-mates he was to retire from international cricket.
After the final Test against India, which starts on Friday, the 33year-old opener will step down from England duty. He averages 18.62 in 2018, said he had lost his “mental edge”. On Sunday, he told his team that: “I was a couple of beers in, otherwise I would have cried more than I actually did. At the end of the game I said, ‘It might be good news, it might be sad for some, it might be happy for others, but it’s time and I have done my bit. I will play one more game’. “There was a little bit of silence, then Mo [Ali] said something, everybody laughed and it was forgotten about.” Cook told captain Joe Root before the fourth Test at Southampton