How Alastair Cook went from choirboy to sporting hero

Here's another article on the current most famous Choirboy from St Paul's.

From the Mail.

For five years, Alastair Cook performed in the famous choirstalls, and the acute sense of discipline that was required has permeated through to the phenomenal efforts of concentration that have been breaking Australia's will in the Ashes.

That is the view of his father Graham, who has been in Adelaide to witness Cook's latest heroics, and the connection is also made by his first cricket coach at St Paul's Cathedral School, which England's opener attended as a boarder from the age of eight.

Tim Roslin, the school's former games master who now lives in Sydney, feels that the habits absorbed as a highly trained chorister can only have helped.

'There's no doubt that it was a highly disciplined environment and it needed to be, because the boys would be up at 6am every morning to practise their singing and only had one day off per week,' recalls Roslin.

'Although singing was the focus of the school there were lots of other things going on. I never had a problem getting the boys to play cricket, although sometimes the people running the choir weren't always so happy.' 

The complete story is here.

I wonder who's wearing that medal now?