ENGLAND’S cricketers Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook are among the sports stars who have been named on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list this year.
Strauss, who was among the England cricketers awarded an MBE following the Ashes success in 2005, has been given an OBE, while Cook, the player-of-the-series in the Australia campaign last winter, is awarded an MBE. Victorious coach Andy Flower is also made an OBE, while Strauss and Cook are just two of several stars across sport to be honoured in the latest list.
“It is a great honour to receive this accolade,” Strauss said. “It’s one of the better items of post you get through the letterbox – certainly better than a gas bill. I’m very proud to receive it and, more than anything, very proud of how the team performed out there in Australia.
It is wonderful to receive OBEs and MBEs. We have achieved something but are nowhere near the end of the road yet, and will continue to strive to improve,” he said.