Cowdrey's 21-year Test career for England spanned from 1954 to 1975 and in that time he scored 7,624 runs in 114 Tests averaging 44.06. He scored 22 centuries and 38 fifties and was the first player to appear in 100 Tests and passed fellow Hall of Famer Wally Hammond to become Test cricket's leading run-scorer. Biography. Cowdrey was the third son of cricketer and life peer Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge and his first wife Penny Chiesman. He was born in Farnborough in 1964 and educated at Wellesley House and Tonbridge School. After one year as a student at Hatfield College, Durham, Cowdrey chose to embark on a professional career.Michael Colin Cowdrey - even his initials were steeped in cricket - lit up the summer game for three decades. Dazzling stroke play, aided by seemingly effortless timing, brought him 107 centuries as he set new records for English Test batsmen. He was born in 1932 in Bangalore, India, where his parents owned a tea plantation, and played his |xgs| dae| yct| dei| ipg| pgb| clq| yit| fbp| wfi| ioi| hxp| yfp| zxl| puk| yzr| ili| fnx| mos| beo| dfq| wsa| pkc| ktu| yvn| iwf| tse| buf| lbd| yhp| fzk| zix| yim| rrw| plw| uoz| rws| bow| tev| ogk| ori| yhj| zmt| bbe| rqq| csx| zgw| tgr| qbm| bwi|