Graham Cottrell - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Mar 23, 1945 Datchet, England, United Kingdom 79 years old

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About Graham Cottrell

  • Graham Allan Cottrell (born 23 March 1945) is a former first-class cricketer and teacher. He attended Kingston Grammar School before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
  • He won a Blue for hockey at Cambridge University and also played for Cambridgeshire, but was more prominent as a cricketer, playing for the University side from 1966 to 1968 and captaining the team in 1968. Cottrell was principally a medium-pace bowler.
  • He took 20 wickets at an average of 38.80 in 1966 and 18 at 43.72 in 1967.
  • His best season was 1968, when he took 22 at 25.36, including his best figures of 4 for 31 in his final first-class match, against Oxford University.
  • He was the team's most effective bowler, but gave himself only 163 overs in 12 matches.He sometimes scored useful runs in the lower order.
  • His highest score was 81 against Nottinghamshire in 1967 when, after Cambridge were 69 for 6, he and Chris Pyemont added 142 for the seventh wicket at better than a run a minute.
  • Later that season he made 50 in an hour against the touring Indian team.He played for Surrey Second XI from 1966 to 1970.
  • In their 17-run victory over Warwickshire Second XI in 1967 he took 4 for 2 and 5 for 48.
  • He also played a few games of Minor Counties cricket for Cambridgeshire in 1976. He became a school teacher.
  • He taught at Stowe School, where he was housemaster of Cobham House from 1990 to 2000.

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