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    Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, CBE (24 December 1932 – 4 December 2000) was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket...
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  • peer, Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge. He was educated at Tonbridge School. After a good season for Kent in County cricket in 1984, Cowdrey was...
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  • ICC was abolished, with the Chairman becoming an honorary position. Colin Cowdrey and Clyde Walcott also served as the Chairman of the ICC. Until 1989...
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    to play for the county, following his father, Chris Cowdrey, and grandfather Colin Cowdrey. Cowdrey was often employed as an all-rounder, batting right-handed...
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    Cowdrey (27 June 1964 – 10 November 2020) was an English cricketer. Cowdrey was the third son of cricketer and life peer Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey...
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  • runs in a stand with Colin Cowdrey in an 8 wicket victory. The Fourth Test at Old Trafford gave him 87, and captain Colin Cowdrey gave him the ball and...
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  • in 2001, following the death of its eponym Late Lord Colin Cowdrey, in December 2000. Colin Cowdrey is reported to have been instrumental in adapting the...
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  • speed skater Colin Cowdrey, English cricketer Colin Cowherd, American sports radio personality Colin Croft, West Indian cricketer Colin Crouch, British...
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    playing 100 Test matches is considered to be a significant achievement. Colin Cowdrey of England was the first cricketer to have reached this landmark, celebrating...
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  • Anne Elizabeth Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles, Baroness Cowdrey of Tonbridge (née Fitzalan-Howard; 12 June 1938 – 23 November 2014) was a British...
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  • captain of the England tour of India in 1963–64 when Ted Dexter and Colin Cowdrey were unavailable and without England's top bowlers Brian Statham and...
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  • coach Chris Cowdrey (born 1957), English cricketer, the son of Colin Cowdrey Colin Cowdrey (1932–2000), English cricketer Fabian Cowdrey (born 1993),...
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  • India He was the father of the England Test cricketer Colin Cowdrey. The son of Ernest Charles Cowdrey, he was born in British India at Calcutta in January...
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    made in 1991 against Sri Lanka. The English pairing of Peter May and Colin Cowdrey together scored 411 for the fourth wicket against the West Indies in...
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  • on his mother's side. Cowdrey comes from a cricketing dynasty with his father Chris and grandfather, life peer, Colin Cowdrey, both captaining England...
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    aggregate of runs was the highest in Test cricket until surpassed by Colin Cowdrey in 1970; his total of 22 Test centuries remained an English record until...
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  • 1996–2012  India 17 6 – 23 66 Azhar Ali 2010–2022  Pakistan 19 3 0 22 Colin Cowdrey 1954–1975  England 22 0 – 22 Wally Hammond^ 1927–1947  England 22 –...
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  • an England captain until Graham Gooch's 333 in 1990, adding 411 with Colin Cowdrey (154) – still an England record for any wicket – and destroyed the mesmerising...
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    centuries, third in England's records, held jointly with Wally Hammond, Colin Cowdrey, and Ian Bell and surpassed only by Pietersen (23), Root (33) and Cook...
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    one game a local player was used to make up an XI. The 41-year-old Colin Cowdrey was sent to reinforce the team on his record sixth tour of Australia...
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  • respectively. Learie Constantine and Colin Cowdrey both received life peerages, becoming Baron Constantine and Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge respectively. David...
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    against Pakistan, winning two big victories, but Colin Cowdrey was put in charge for the Third Test. Cowdrey had been May's affable vice-captain, had a shrewd...
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  • 1959–60 and in the space of two overs he dismissed England internationals Colin Cowdrey, Mike Smith and Peter May. In the match between Barbados and the touring...
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    for Cambridge against Kent, was also another future England captain, Colin Cowdrey, whom he caught off Dexter's bowling. He was unable to obtain a regular...
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  • Sitara-e-Imtiaz. In 2015 he became ICC president, the third cricketer after Colin Cowdrey and Clyde Walcott, to hold the post. Zaheer Abbas held the record for...
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    for most catches by a fielder for England – going past Ian Botham and Colin Cowdrey at Lord's against South Africa in 2012 – until he was in turn overtaken...
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  • "Baron(Learie) Compton". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 13 June 2021. "Colin Cowdrey". Cricinfo. ESPN. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved...
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    69 112 Peter May  England NR 3  South Africa 23 June 1955 Won 70 152 Colin Cowdrey (1/2)  England NR 2  West Indies 20 June 1957 Won 71 130 Bill Lawry...
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    Lady Herries of Terregles married the cricketer Colin Cowdrey, created a life peer as Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge in 1997. Lady Herries died in 2014 when...
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  • had simultaneously played two Test matches at once. Chris Cowdrey is the son of Colin Cowdrey, making them the second father and son to both captain England...
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