* Alastair Cook ( born 1984 ), English cricketer

Alastair Cook of the England cricket team standing in a catching stance typical of a fieldsman in a silly catching position

Returning to Australia, Taylor made 1, 403 first-class runs at 70. 15 during the 1989 – 90 season, and ended 1989 with 1, 219 Test runs, thus becoming the first player to better one thousand Test runs in his debut calendar year, something only matched once by England opener Alastair Cook over 15 years later.

* Alastair Cook ( chorister ), cricketer.

Cook was forced into a decision over his private life after a telephone conversation with Alastair Campbell as he was about to go on holiday with his first wife.

Alastair Cook, Darren Gough, Bob Monkhouse, and Dave Lee Travis.

Dexter continued his good run of form to equal Patsy Hendren's England record of six consecutive Test 50s ( 85 and 172 against Pakistan and 70, 99, 93 and 52 against Australia ), which he soon shared with Ken Barrington and more recently Alastair Cook.

England cricket legend Alastair Cook ( MBE ) got married here.

The ECB also employs the English Test match captain Alastair Cook and other centrally contracted players, as well as being responsible for the ECB National Academy, currently based at Loughborough University in Leicestershire.

England – Samit Patel, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Alastair Cook, Steven Davies, Luke Wright and Liam Plunkett

However, a recurring knee injury, his decision to move down the batting order to accommodate other openers ( Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook ) and the pressures of captaincy took their toll on Vaughan's batting during the latter part of his career: in Tests he averaged 50. 95 when not captain, and 36. 02 as captain.

This included the dropping of fellow opener Strauss from the one-day side, and the rise of Alastair Cook as a Test and ODI opener for England.

On 1 August 2008 he removed England opener Alastair Cook to claim his 350th test wicket in his 90th test.

Alastair Cook dropped the catch from the batsman ( Graeme Smith ) in the gully

He made 76 in the Second Test to give him six consecutive 50s in Test cricket ( 63, 132 not out, 101, 94, 126, 76 ), an England record he shares with Patsy Hendren, Ted Dexter and Alastair Cook.

England's Alastair Cook holds the record for number of runs scored in one Test innings at The Gabba with 235 not out, breaking the previous record set by Sir Donald Bradman.

In September 2009 Alastair S Cook became headmaster.

He coached Cambridge University and Bedford School ; when Alastair Cook came through the School's First XI, Randall recommended that the youngster be picked for the ECB National Academy.

In September of the same season he made his county cricket debut against Essex, his maiden first-class wicket being that of Alastair Cook.

* Alastair Cook, English cricketer

He was named in the squad of 13 for the first home Test of the summer, against Sri Lanka, but with the return of Marcus Trescothick, coupled with the good form of Paul Collingwood and the emergence of Alastair Cook, Bell was dropped from the starting 11.

Coming into the Ashes series, with Andrew Flintoff named as captain for the tour and reclaiming his place at number six in the batting order, Bell was viewed as competing with Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood for two places in the starting eleven.

Along with Alastair Cook, Paul Collingwood and Matt Prior, they became the first four batsmen for England since 1938 to each score a century in the same Test match.

Bell went on to score 25 in England's first innings and top scored in the second innings with an unbeaten 54 as England crumbled to 110 all out and lost the match by 189 runs, the next highest score in the innings being 13 by Alastair Cook.

In the first test, he scored a magnificent 195, his highest test score, in a partnership of 307 with Brad Haddin, the highest partnership ever at the Gabba, later broken by Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott in the next innings ; the test ended in a draw.

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?

In particular, under the administration of Tony Blair, the influence of two Downing Street special advisers, Jonathan Powell and Alastair Campbell, both of whom were given formal power over Downing Street civil servants, provoked widespread criticism.

( Sir Alastair Pilkington ) and his associate Kenneth Bickerstaff, both of Great Britain, developed the world's first commercially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass using their float glass process.

Along with a secret Batcave, high tech Batmobile, and a new technology he created called the Bat-Wave, he has his trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth ( voiced by Alastair Duncan ), who guides both Bruce Wayne and The Batman when needed.

In both of these audio productions Tennant worked alongside Doctor Who alumnus Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

It was also cycled in the 2004 winter by Alastair Humphreys and Rob Lilwall, followed on foot by Rosie Swale-Pope in 2005 and ridden solo on motorcycle by both Adrian Scott and by Russian woman Sasha Teplyakova ( via the Old Summer Road ) the same year.

The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo ( b. 1983 ).

Derek Jacobi portrays Daedalus, Ian Hawkes portrays Icarus, Alastair White portrays Talos, and John Wood portrays Minos.

The film starred Ian Carmichael as the innocent in need of Professor Potter's teaching, Alastair Sim as Potter, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price and Peter Jones as exemplars of one-upmanship.

The original Jaguar version's music was created by Ian Howe, Alastair Lindsay and Kevin Saville of Imagitec Design Inc. ( AKA Dream Weavers ), who also created the music for Jeff Minter's Defender 2000 on the Atari Jaguar.

Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson, 99-144.

* 1996 Alastair Ian Scott, Genetically engineered synthesis of natural products.

* George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo ( b. 4 May 1983 ).

Henry Palfrey ( Ian Carmichael ) arrives at the Yeovil railway station and makes his way to the " School of Lifemanship ", run by Stephen Potter ( Alastair Sim ).

Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE ( 9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976 ) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films.

Scottish musician Alastair McDonald re-worded a traditional song called The Mermaid's Tale, and set the scene on Bell Rock instead of the Eddystone light.