• On Monday at The Oval in London, English cricketer Alastair Cook batted in his 291st and final Test innings and signed off in style by making 147 runs, in addition to 71 in the first innings. Getty Images
    On Monday at The Oval in London, English cricketer Alastair Cook batted in his 291st and final Test innings and signed off in style by making 147 runs, in addition to 71 in the first innings. Getty Images
  • Cook, is caught out by India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant off the bowling of India's Hanuma Vihari for 147. When he scored his 76th run of the innings, Cook became the fifth highest scoring individual batsman in Test cricket history, eclipsing Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakarra’s 12,400 runs. Cook ended his batting career on 12,472 runs. AP Photo
    Cook, is caught out by India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant off the bowling of India's Hanuma Vihari for 147. When he scored his 76th run of the innings, Cook became the fifth highest scoring individual batsman in Test cricket history, eclipsing Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakarra’s 12,400 runs. Cook ended his batting career on 12,472 runs. AP Photo
  • Cook, who also captained England for a record 59 Tests, became only the second batsmen in history to have made a fifty and a century on both his Test debut (60 and 104 not out, against India in Nagpur in 2006) and in his final match. AFP
    Cook, who also captained England for a record 59 Tests, became only the second batsmen in history to have made a fifty and a century on both his Test debut (60 and 104 not out, against India in Nagpur in 2006) and in his final match. AFP
  • He joins a similarly select club of just five who have scored a hundred in their first and final matches: Australians Bill Ponsford, Reggie Duff and Greg Chappell, and Indian great Mohammad Azharuddin make up the quintet. AFP
    He joins a similarly select club of just five who have scored a hundred in their first and final matches: Australians Bill Ponsford, Reggie Duff and Greg Chappell, and Indian great Mohammad Azharuddin make up the quintet. AFP
  • Cook celebrates reaching his century. His score of 147 is the highest by any batsman in the second innings of his final Test, beating his compatriot R Subba Row’s 137, which was also scored at The Oval against Australia in 1961. AP Photo
    Cook celebrates reaching his century. His score of 147 is the highest by any batsman in the second innings of his final Test, beating his compatriot R Subba Row’s 137, which was also scored at The Oval against Australia in 1961. AP Photo
  • His ton was his 15th in a Test second innings, a record he holds on his own after moving past Sangakkara’s 14. AFP
    His ton was his 15th in a Test second innings, a record he holds on his own after moving past Sangakkara’s 14. AFP
  • Cook isn’t the only Englishman to enter record territory in this match. After dismissing two Indian batsmen in four balls in his second over, James Anderson drew level with Australian great Glenn McGrath on 563 Test wickets: if he picks up one more wicket on Tuesday he will become the fourth highest Test wicket taker of all time. AFP
    Cook isn’t the only Englishman to enter record territory in this match. After dismissing two Indian batsmen in four balls in his second over, James Anderson drew level with Australian great Glenn McGrath on 563 Test wickets: if he picks up one more wicket on Tuesday he will become the fourth highest Test wicket taker of all time. AFP
  • Stuart Broad can also advance along the road to cricketing immortality. His dismissal of the Indian captain Virat Kohli for a golden duck means that the Englishman needs just two wickets to supplant Kapil Dev in seventh place on the all time wicket takers’ list with 435 scalps. Getty Images
    Stuart Broad can also advance along the road to cricketing immortality. His dismissal of the Indian captain Virat Kohli for a golden duck means that the Englishman needs just two wickets to supplant Kapil Dev in seventh place on the all time wicket takers’ list with 435 scalps. Getty Images

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Centurion Alastair Cook signs off in style

The England batsman scored 147 in his 291st and last innings for his country

The National

September 11, 2018

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