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Cook and Vaughan on the right time to retire

Test Match Special

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The Importance of Accepting the Highs

When you retire or when you stop playing cricket, that's a lot of time to replace. And actually, because of the farm, that time is there already. I get up and if I'm down the farm and whatever, it's seven-thirty to six o'clock, my whole day is done. You're not an adrenaline junkie that needs that sort of spark. But I think Vorni said, you can't cannot replace that. Professional sport gives you unbelievable heights. That high is never repeated. It's to accept that was your 20 years of living under the massive highs and probably actually a lot more lows. The majority of the kind of people live their professional

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