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From the Ashes: Sir Alastair Cook.

Test Match Special

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The Ashes Baptism

The young Batterat Essex had just taken an under-pressure Australia aside for a double-hundred. So it was kind of two young Essex guys doing well. You look, it was a flat-wicket, I think, Matthew Aiden got 160 before lunch the next day. And so it's like surfing in this room pool. But it was just a great crowd, great excitement, and just to be part of that, and do pretty well. Yeah, it was probably what it did for my career was it jumped me ahead of the next few Batterat in kind of in the selection thing.

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