Former England captain the late Michael Colin Cowdrey
was born in Bangalore on 24 Dec 1932 and died of a heart attack at
Littlehampton, Sussex on 4 December 2000. Cowdrey, who was the first
cricketer to play in 100 Test matches and held the records for the most
runs by a batsman and most catches by a fielder in Test cricket, toured
Australia a record six times between 1954-55 and 1974-75. Cowdrey played
his 114th and final Test match in 1975, when aged 42, he was called up
as an emergency replacement during the tour of Australia. He was made a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972, a Knight in 1992, a
Life Peer by the cricket-loving Prime Minister John Major in 1997 and
was posthumously inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame on 24 June
2009. After his retirement in 1976, Cowdrey worked closely behind the
scenes at Kent, became President of the MCC in 1986 and was Chairman of
the International Cricket Council from 1989-1993.
1995: Sir Colin Cowdrey poses
for photographers during the ICC press conference at Lord's in London.
Aug 1980: Colin Cowdrey of
England batting for old England agaisnt old Australia at the Oval In
London.
English cricketer Sir (Michael) Colin Cowdrey (1932 - 2000), captain of Kent, batting at Blackheath in a match against Surrey.
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