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One of England's greatest ever batsmen has announced his retirement from international cricket.

Cook drives his time, he's beaten the infield,

the cause racing towards the boundary, square of the wickets.

And Alistair Cook becomes England's all-time leading run scorer in the history of test cricket.

Yes, Alistair Cook will call time on his England career after the fifth test against India,

which starts on Friday. In a statement, Cook said he can retire with a big smile on my face,

knowing I've given everything and there's nothing left in the tank.

It'd been on my mind for about 12 months, I suppose.

I think obviously given up the captain's he's kind of the start of that.

How'd that worked, playing and not being captain?

Yeah, well, I thought he had. He worked okay.

I hope I wasn't an issue for Routy, obviously trying to give him space and as a new captain to

grow into the role, to get his ideas across the team.

And there's a couple of times where he would have spoken and I probably would have disagreed

what he was saying. But I had to bite my tongue and just let it go.

No, you do. You do.

That would have been the only times I'd probably found it a little bit awkward where he was saying

stuff and actually I thought possibly we should go down a slightly different route.

But I had my time as captain, so that was kind of the thing.

I really enjoyed playing without the pressure and the stress of captain's he did it for

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