Alastair Cook gets married to his childhood girlfriend – Cricket News Update
England’s ODI skipper and star batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026, finally tied the knot with his childhood girlfriend, Alice Hunt, on Saturday, December 31 at the Stewkley Methodist Church, Bedfordshire. The couple got married in the presence of 250 invitees including
all notable English cricketers.
At the commencement of the wedding ceremony, Cook, along with his wife, departed towards their residence on a tractor. A number of cricket fans accompanied the couple throughout the way, dancing and singing for the star batsman on the most auspicious occasion
of his life.
Ms Hunt, the daughter of a farmer, has been seeing Cook since school. The couple met first at St Paul’s Choir School, an all girls’ school, where Hunt worked as a chorister.
Cook selected an ideal time for his marriage to Hunt, on the last evening of year 2011. The couple started their new life with the dawn of the New Year.
Speaking to the media, minister of the wedding, Jim Gorringe, said, “It went very well. There were 225 invited guests, and quite a few other locals managed to get into the church when they heard about it.”
The English spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501, tweeted, “Cookie’s wedding list seems full of house and kitchenware rather than things he actually needs. Like a joke book.”
Apart from Swann, the other Poms, who attended the ceremony, were http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ST-Finn-c2566.
Cooky, the maverick opener, was jubilant to be married and hoped for a happy and successful life with his wife.
The Gloucester boy was made captain of the England One Day International team at the end of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011. His appointment as an ODI skipper was a part of the England Cricket Board’s three-pronged approach i.e., a separate captain for each
of the three formats of the game.
The new married couple will not have the luxury of an extended honeymoon as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, starting in Dubai, on January 17th, 2012.
Tags: