Stephen Craig Cook (born November 29, 1982 in Johannesburg) is a South African first class cricketer, the son of former Test player Jimmy Cook. He is a right-handed opening batsman and very occasional right-arm medium bowler formerly for Gauteng following his debut in 2000, and for Lions since 2009. In 2010 he scored 390 runs in a single innings, surpassing several South African and international first-class cricket records, and was included in the South Africa A squad.[1][2]
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Cook was born in November 1982 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, son of former Test cricketer Jimmy Cook, himself an "exceptional opening batsman" with over 20,000 first-class runs.[3]
Cook holds the record highest score in South African first-class cricket – 390 from 648 balls on October 25, 2009 against the Warriors – which was also the team's first triple century.[4][5] Cook had previously been a spectator to his father's own 313 and Daryll Cullinan's previous-record 337, and commented later that "When my brother and I used to play cricket in the garden, there was one score neither of us could ever go past and that was dads. Neither of us could ever score more than 313."[6] Cook's score is also the twelfth-highest and fourth-longest in first-class cricket history - taking over 14 hours to complete - and was part of a record-breaking 365-run partnership with Thami Tsolekile, also a record for South African first-class cricket.[1]
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