page_title: List of international cricket centuries by Alastair Cook
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hierarchical_section_title: List of international cricket centuries by Alastair Cook / Key
caption_attribution_description: England's Steve Harmison bowling against New Zealand at Lord's. May 20, 2004
context_page_description: Sir Alastair Cook is a retired English cricketer and former captain of the England cricket team. He scored centuries in Test and One Day International matches on 33 and 5 occasions respectively. In a career that spanned from 2006 to 2018, he played 161 Tests and 92 ODIs for England, scoring 12,472 and 3,204 runs respectively. He is the youngest batsman to score 10,000 or more runs in Test cricket, and has scored the most Test runs as an opening batsman. Cook was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours. In 2011, the International Cricket Council selected him as their Test Player of the Year. Wisden named him as one of their cricketers of the year in 2012.
  Cook made his Test debut against India at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur in 2006. He became the sixteenth English cricketer to score a century on Test debut when he scored 104 in the second innings. His score of 294, against the same team at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, in 2011, is the sixth highest total by an English batsman in Test cricket. Cook has scored Test centuries at 24 cricket grounds, including 17 outside England.
caption: Cook has scored four of his Test centuries at Lord's.[20]
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