Cook not mulling retirement ahead of 150th Test

SYDNEY: Alastair Cook has “no idea” when he will be retiring and is completely focused on beating Australia in his 150th Test this week to keep the Ashes series alive, the former England captain said on Tuesday.

Cook, England’s most prolific test run-scorer, has made 62 runs in four innings as the tourists have gone 2-0 down in the five-match series and some former players turned pundits have suggested he might be about to call time on his career.

Cook captained England on their last Ashes tour Down Under when spinner Graeme Swann retired mid-series with the tourists 3-0 down and headed for a 5-0 whitewash. Former Australian paceman Mitchell Johnson and England batsman Kevin Pietersen have suggested that Cook had look of a man who might be ready to hang up his bat.