Alastair Cook: ‘Steve Smith is redefining what is possible as a batsman’ | Donald McRae

The former England captain on Australia’s ‘freak’ run machine, the psychological battles all cricketers face and why less could be more for the future of Test cricket“As cricketers we fail all the time,” Alastair Cook says as he remembers how, exactly a year ago, on 10 September 2018, his final Test match innings unfolded like a beautiful fairytale. “You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between 0 and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you fee