Sir Alastair Cook's career in numbers

Alastair Cook
England's Alastair Cook at the end of his last ever match before retiring from Test cricket in 2018. -AP

Sir Alastair Cook has retired from professional cricket. Here is the former England captain's career in numbers. 

161 - number of Test appearances for England. 

12,472 - Test runs, placing him fifth in the all-time world list. 

45.35 - his Test batting average. 

294 - his career-best score, against India at Edgbaston in 2011 when England went to No.1 in the world Test rankings. 

33 - Test centuries, a record for an Englishman, the last coming in his final Test. Five of those were double-hundreds. 

2 - innings he needed to record his first Test hundred. He made an unbeaten 104 at the second time of asking on debut against India in Nagpur - after 60 at his first attempt. 

59 - Tests in which Cook was England captain. 

352 - first-class matches. 

26,643 - first-class runs. 

913 - runs scored in the 2019 County Championship season as Essex won the title. 

14 - Cook's age when he made a century as a guest, making up the numbers for the MCC, against his own Bedford School team. 

766 - runs scored in the 2010-11 Ashes series, when England won 3-1 in Australia - the Three Lions' only series win Down Under since the 1986-87 series. 

92 - one-day internationals played by Cook, with five centuries and 19 fifties. He also played four Twenty20 internationals.