Full name Frank Carroll Cobden
Born October 14, 1849, Marylebone, London
Died December 7, 1932, Capel Curig, Caernarvonshire, Wales (aged 83 years 54 days)
Major teams Cambridge University
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | Ct | St | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-class | 22 | 37 | 4 | 471 | 73* | 14.27 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
Mat | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave | Econ | SR | 5w | 10 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-class | 22 | 2381 | 1118 | 65 | 6/35 | 17.20 | 2.81 | 36.6 | 4 | 1 |
First-class span | 1870 - 1872 |
Frank Carroll Cobden, who died at Capel Curig, North Wales, on December 7, was the hero of perhaps the most sensational piece of bowling in the history of cricket. In the Oxford and Cambridge match of 1870, Oxford, set 179 runs to win, had made 175 for the loss of seven batsmen and thus, with three wickets to fall, wanted only four runs for victory when Cobden began the over which will be for ever memorable. The first ball was hit by F. H. Hill for a single, the stroke being one which would certainly have sent the ball to the boundary had it not been brilliantly fielded by mid-wicket--as to whether this was mid-off or mid-on even those taking part in the match differ. S. E. Butler was caught off the second ball, T. H. Belcher bowled by the third, and W. A. Stewart by the fourth, with the result that Cambridge snatched an extraordinary victory by two runs.