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Till the Cowdreys come home
By Jonathan Calder last year, at the start of November Add your comment below
Congratulations to Angus and Grant for supplying the correct answer to my question. The other father and son, besides Frank and George Mann, to have captained England are Colin and Chris Cowdrey.
Hywel, see me afterwards.
If you are really clever you will now be able to tell me who played in an England test side with both Colin and Chris Cowdrey.
Jonathan Calder blogs at Liberal England
Tags: chris-cowdrey, colin-cowdrey, england |
16 Responses to “Till the Cowdreys come home”
November 5th, 2009 at 10.32 pm
November 5th, 2009 at 10.52 pm
Percy Pocock?
November 5th, 2009 at 11.03 pm
Percy Pocock
November 5th, 2009 at 11.06 pm
And I’ll say it again … sorry – thought my first attempt hadn’t registered.
November 6th, 2009 at 12.55 am
Brian Close? I know he played for a helluva long time.
November 6th, 2009 at 6.35 am
That will be Pat Pocock. Must say, though I was enthusiastically following cricket at the time, I missed his 1980s recall – there must have been an injury crisis?
Sadly,you don’t have to be that clever to get this: Cricinfo is a great help, though some prior knowledge certainly saves time!
November 6th, 2009 at 7.21 am
Pat Pocock.
November 6th, 2009 at 8.50 am
Pat Pocock it is.
November 6th, 2009 at 9.08 am
Pat Pocock. Did Pocock not go about 12 years in Test cricket without scoring a run?
November 6th, 2009 at 7.34 pm
Yes, Percy Pocock. I thought it was, but had to check.
November 7th, 2009 at 2.30 pm
This is just embarrasing. 
November 7th, 2009 at 5.07 pm
DC: He went to India in 1985/6.
England’s new captain David Gower hit upon the novel idea of selecting our best two spinners for the tour. He was told that Pocock was too old and Edmonds was too awkward, but he won that battle and we won the series.
November 7th, 2009 at 8.38 pm
Make that the 1984/5 to India.
November 9th, 2009 at 7.07 pm
Is that the tour when Gower said to Cowdrey “would you like Gatting any wider at slip?” to which Cowdrey replied: “Any wider and he’d burst”?
November 9th, 2009 at 9.20 pm
It was and you have just stolen my next posting.
November 9th, 2009 at 9.53 pm
Oops sorry
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