05-09-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com

Alastair Cook ready for England ‘mourning period’ but rules out return

• Retiring opener insists he will not be tempted back to Tests
• Cook: ‘It’s final – I’ve done my bit for England’Alastair Cook expects to enter a period of mourning once his Test career comes to an end at the Oval but the opener has already ruled out being talked back into the whites of his country in future, insisting: “I have done my bit.”Speaking before his 161st and final Test starting on Friday, a match in which Joe Root’s side will
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