Famous Cricketers No 72 - Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge, C.B.E.

Acknowledgements I am very grateful to Philip Bailey and Kit Bartlett for their assistance in filling in gaps in my statistics, and to Derek Carlaw for reading through and suggesting amendments to my final text. David Robertson, the Kent County Cricket Club Honorary Curator, allowed me ready access to the Kent scorebooks while Nigel Harris kindly checked out some queries from the Oxford University Cricket Club scorebooks. The following publications proved of value:- Various issues/editions of:- The Cricketer (International) Playfair Cricket Monthly Kent County Cricket Club Annual Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Colin Cowdrey - Cricket Today . Arthur Barker, 1961. Colin Cowdrey - The Incomparable Game . Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. Colin Cowdrey - MCC: The Autobiography of a Cricketer . Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. Bill Frindall - England Test Cricketers: The Complete Record from 1877 . Collins Willow, 1989. Bill Frindall - The Wisden Book of Test Cricket. Vol. 1 1877-1977 . Headline, 1995. Howard Milton - Kent Cricket Records 1815-1993 . Limlow Books, 1994. Mark Peel - The Last Roman: A Biography of Colin Cowdrey . André Deutsch, 1999. Harley Sherlock - Villagers – five shillings [Sanderstead Cricket Club]. The Bourne Society, 2001. Ivo Tennant - The Cowdreys: Portrait of a Cricketing Family . Simon and Schuster, 1990. Ray Webster - First-class Cricket in Australia. Vol.2 1945-46 to 1976-77 . The author, 1997. KEY * (innings by innings section) captain * (statistics) not out or unbroken partnership d innings declared closed c innings closed after 65 overs (1966) or 100 overs (1974-76) (date) no play on that day. 4