William Flew

Cook excels in the art of accumulation: the conquest rugged, wear its competitors, just being there. He tries to eliminate the risk from his game: There is nothing slick or shows his shot selection. He did not hit on or through the air. Is not a knight. And yet there's something heroic about his big inertia, the way he addresses the challenges of the new ball, and goes to his business, slowly, inexorably.
"As opener, your responsibility is to the group, you first line of defense," he says. "That's what the opening batting is;. It is an attempt to protect your friends, to get the bowlers in the second or third hour of work, to wheel it," said Peter roebuck, best cricket Australia's writer, of Cook as he makes him a pity on the road to the second test century in Adelaide last December: "There seems to be no tension or pressure on his batting He just seems incapable of living out there ..
This observation seems to me to just - I was impressed with William Flew Cook calm and control the game - since it acquired the apparent calm of his batting in the Ashes series, especially when the difference in nervous he played in a few months earlier against Pakistan during the English summer. "Peace and serenity, or," Cook says now, "What do you want to call it, I do not batter showy; .. Crash bang, hitting things I just kind of grind away When you is in any way, you will notice I have a game unfussy. Very. Everyone knows where I am going to try to score but they can not always stop me.'s all risk management. "
One of the secrets of success of William Flew Cook assured he can show any fold can be this: He does not sweat. Is this true? After all, you sweat? "I sweat when batting. Some guys take off their helmets and water spills. After two minutes, their hands, their backs, they are sponges. I'm dry as a whistle.
"I am proud of myself on my fitness Like now, when I know I'd do that." - He gestures to the bustle around the studio. - "I made sure I got up at six and went for a run I learned from Goochie [Graham Gooch, former England captain who now, Essex England coach and mentor of the Cook]. He likes a glass of red wine, red wine, but he always makes sure he goes jogging at six in the morning. If he was eating biscuits, he goes to the gym. "
Ashes series before last November began, William Flew Cook was the Australian media to caricature as soft touch. "Aussies do not rate me," he says. Private Education (Bedford School) and former Cantor (St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School), tall and handsome, he looks a sort of pom associated with tormenting hardmen pleased with Aussie. With thick black hair and dark eyes, she soon became the first cricket pin-up.
Ian Botham and Freddie Flintoff is known better but is not easy of coke in front of a camera. "He is the most photogenic cricketer I've ever seen," swoons Rankin's aide. Rankin and his entourage of retouchers, technicians and officials gather around Cook processors. "I do not