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Full name Simon James Cook
Born January 15, 1977, Oxford
Current age 32 years 312 days
Major teams Kent, Middlesex
Nickname Chef
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Height 6 ft 4 in
Education Matthew Arnold School
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-class | 117 | 146 | 22 | 2107 | 93* | 16.99 | 0 | 6 | 31 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 170 | 105 | 32 | 1234 | 67* | 16.90 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 0 | ||||
| Twenty20 | 51 | 15 | 8 | 115 | 25* | 16.42 | 91 | 126.37 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-class | 117 | 18105 | 9394 | 293 | 8/63 | 32.06 | 3.11 | 61.7 | 12 | 0 | |||
| List A | 170 | 7567 | 5944 | 214 | 6/37 | 6/37 | 27.77 | 4.71 | 35.3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 51 | 51 | 1087 | 1348 | 60 | 3/14 | 3/14 | 22.46 | 7.44 | 18.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class debut | 1999 |
| Last First-class | Gloucestershire v Kent at Bristol, Sep 23-25, 2009 scorecard |
| List A debut | 1997 |
| Last List A | Kent v Warwickshire at Canterbury, Sep 13, 2009 scorecard |
| Twenty20 debut | Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 13, 2003 scorecard |
| Last Twenty20 | Kent v Somerset at Birmingham, Aug 15, 2009 scorecard |
Standing at 6ft 4ins, Simon Cook is a lively fast-medium bowler. He jumped from taking the new ball for Cumnor - a league side in Oxfordshire - in 1996 to taking the new ball with Angus Fraser for Middlesex against Ireland in the Benson & Hedges Cup a year later. The considerable promotion was accidental: he admits Middlesex scouts "weren't watching me, they were looking at Andy Strauss, who they also signed". The pair were playing together in a representative U-19s match against Warwickshire
At Middlesex, shin splints and a stress fracture delayed Cook's progress from an effective one-day bowler to Championship bowler. In 2000 injury and form restricted him to only seven first-class appearances. When Fraser, his mentor, left the club two years later for a career in journalism, he filled the containing role and recorded his best, 8 for 63, at Northampton on a good batting track and finished just short of 50 first-class wickets. In 2004 he equalled Adam Hollioake's National League record of 39 wickets in a season, and was also Middlesex's leading first-class wicket-taker. However, in Cook's eight years there, they won no titles, and at the end of 2004, he signed a two-year contract with Kent.
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Aug 4, 2007
Simon Cook makes an unsuccessful appeal against Murray Goodwin
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Jun 27, 2005
Simon Cook headshot
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2005
Simon Cook, portrait 2005
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