Simon Cook (English cricketer)

A right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Middlesex and Kent County Cricket Clubs between 1999 and 2012.

Cook initially played in 1996 for Cumnor in Oxfordshire before a year later being signed by Middlesex along with Andrew Strauss.

After suffering from shin splints and stress fractures he gradually established himself as a front-line bowler in the County Championship.

[7] His time as head coach saw the side record their first One Day International and first-class victories in 2015, take part in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 and record a first victory over an ICC Full Member, beating Afghanistan in 2018.

[7] He was appointed as specialist bowling coach at Kent in September, taking up the role in October.