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Simon Cook
England
Player profile
Full name Simon James Cook
Born January 15, 1977, Oxford
Current age 31 years 272 days
Major teams Kent, Middlesex
Nickname Chef
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height
6 ft 4 in
Education Matthew Arnold School
Batting and fielding averages
|
Mat |
Inns |
NO |
Runs |
HS |
Ave |
BF |
SR |
100 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
Ct |
St |
| First-class |
104 |
133 |
18 |
1887 |
93* |
16.40 |
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0 |
5 |
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31 |
0 |
| List A |
164 |
101 |
31 |
1193 |
67* |
17.04 |
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0 |
2 |
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26 |
0 |
| Twenty20 |
39 |
13 |
6 |
106 |
25* |
15.14 |
83 |
127.71 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
Bowling averages
|
Mat |
Inns |
Balls |
Runs |
Wkts |
BBI |
BBM |
Ave |
Econ |
SR |
4w |
5w |
10 |
| First-class |
104 |
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15860 |
8347 |
259 |
8/63 |
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32.22 |
3.15 |
61.2 |
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9 |
0 |
| List A |
164 |
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7291 |
5744 |
205 |
6/37 |
6/37 |
28.01 |
4.72 |
35.5 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
| Twenty20 |
39 |
39 |
835 |
1069 |
50 |
3/14 |
3/14 |
21.38 |
7.68 |
16.7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Career statistics
| First-class debut |
1999 |
| Last First-class |
Kent v New Zealanders at Canterbury, Apr 28-30, 2008 scorecard |
| List A debut |
1997 |
| Last List A |
Surrey v Kent at The Oval, Sep 2, 2008 scorecard |
| Twenty20 debut |
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard |
| Last Twenty20 |
Kent v Middlesex at Southampton, Jul 26, 2008 scorecard |
Standing at 6ft 4ins, Simon Cook is a lively fast-medium bowler. He jumped from taking the new ball for Cumnor - a league side in Oxfordshire - in 1996 to taking the new ball with Angus Fraser for Middlesex against Ireland in the Benson & Hedges Cup a year later. The considerable promotion was accidental: he admits Middlesex scouts "weren't watching me, they were looking at Andy Strauss, who they also signed". The pair were playing together in a representative U-19s match against Warwickshire
At Middlesex, shin splints and a stress fracture delayed Cook's progress from an effective one-day bowler to Championship bowler. In 2000 injury and form restricted him to only seven first-class appearances. When Fraser, his mentor, left the club two years later for a career in journalism, he filled the containing role and recorded his best, 8 for 63, at Northampton on a good batting track and finished just short of 50 first-class wickets. In 2004 he equalled Adam Hollioake's National League record of 39 wickets in a season, and was also Middlesex's leading first-class wicket-taker. However, in Cook's eight years there, they won no titles, and at the end of 2004, he signed a two-year contract with Kent.
Debashish Biswas (September 2006)
Apr 8, 2008 |
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Portrait of Simon Cook
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Aug 4, 2007 |
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Simon Cook makes an unsuccessful appeal against Murray Goodwin
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Jun 27, 2005 |
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Simon Cook headshot
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