Career
After graduating from the Australian Cricket Academy, he debuted for Victoria early in 1993. He showed promise in the 1993/94 season, taking 30 wickets at 29.5. He moved to New South Wales in the 1995/96 season.
He was a surprise selection in two Tests against New Zealand late in 1997, despite not being considered even up to first-class standard.
On his debut, he took five wickets in the second innings against New Zealand in Perth. Soon after his two Tests, which yielded a respectable average of 20 as a replacement for Glenn McGrath, Cook disappeared off the scene fairly quickly due to injuries.
He did play 4 more Sheffield Shield games in that 1997/98 season, including 2 four-wicket hauls, but in 1998/99 played just two games for just one wicket. He missed the entire 1999/2000 first-class season, and his next match in December 2000 turned out to be his last in the Pura Cup/Sheffield Shield.
Cook retired from all forms of cricket at the end of the 2003-2004 season, playing with Victorian Premier Cricket"s Melbourne Cricket Club.
