He is the greatest batsman to ever play for England’s cricket team, one of the most gifted players in the world, but in 2018 he played his final game. At 33, Alastair cook announced his retirement from sport. The English cricket team was left reeling and, ahead of the ashes, on a burning search for a player worthy of his place. Now, he tells a no-holds-barred, close-up account of his last chapter, his 33rd and last test hundred, an intimate tale of his life: his family, of the man he is today and the man he will be – after cricket. An icon, a role model and one of the Loveliest men alive, Alastair is lauded as a person as well as a player and this is his never-before-heard story.