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The Autobiography

By: Alastair Cook
Narrated by: Dan Connolly
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Get to know England's most-loved batsman in the compelling autobiography from Alastair Cook.

Watch. The. Ball.

It's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155 grams of cork, string and leather - is hurled at you. At 90 mph it travels 22 yards in under half a second....

Alastair Cook, one of England's most decorated players and highest test run scorer, knows what it is like to be your best under pressure. Yet at 33 he called time on his England career.

Come with him as he relives the fraught hours on the pitch, the desperate lows and astonishing highs, the paralysing anxiety that can send the best back home and the extraordinary battle of wills with yourself, the opposing players and even those supposedly on your own side.

This is cricket as you've never seen it. The view from the inside....

©2019 Sir Alastair Cook (P)2019 Penguin Audio Cricket Sports Sports Psychology Inspiring Biography Thought-Provoking

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brilliant book from a really intelligent, mentally tough and skilled operator. massively recommended, easy to relax and get into.

very entertaining and clevely constructed

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Narration was so like Cook, I believed it was Chef himself. Beautiful performance and excellent insight into England's very best.

Uncanny Narration

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A fascinating insight into the life of Alistair Cook. He was clearly exceptionally committed to English Cricket and his results are there for all to see. But he is also very thoughtful and honest about his multiple huge strengths, and also his minor weaknesses. I fully recommend the book.

Fascinating insight

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if you are a cricket fan or an admirer of "the chef" you will love it. I enjoyed it but didn't learn much I hadn't already heard/read/seen from other sources.

enjoyable but not that insightful

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This is a brilliant listen and insight into Cooky. The only slight frustration is the narrator. He sounds somewhat like Chef but you’d have thought he could have learnt how to pronounce the players and former players names. Other than that, it was great

Brilliant, honest and eliminating

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