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Bob Cowper

Australia

Full name Robert Maskew Cowper

Born October 5, 1940, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria

Current age 71 years 235 days

Major teams Australia, Marylebone Cricket Club, Victoria, Western Australia

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Other Referee

Relation Brother - DR Cowper

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	6s	Ct
Tests	27	46	2	2061	307	46.84	5	10	0	21
First-class	147	228	31	10595	307	53.78	26	58		151
List A	4	4	1	77	33	25.66	0	0		4

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	27	36	3005	1139	36	4/48	7/135	31.63	2.27	83.4	3	0
First-class	147		14915	5709	183	7/42		31.19	2.29	81.5		1
List A	4		100	59	3	2/17	2/17	19.66	3.54	33.3	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	England v Australia at Leeds, Jul 2-6, 1964 scorecard
Last Test	England v Australia at Leeds, Jul 25-30, 1968 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span	1959-1970
List A span	1969-1970

ICC match referee statistics

Test debut	England v Pakistan at Birmingham, Jun 4-8, 1992 scorecard
Last Test	England v Pakistan at Lord's, Jun 18-21, 1992 scorecard
Test matches	2
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v Pakistan at Lord's, May 20, 1992 scorecard
Last ODI	Pakistan v West Indies at Johannesburg, Feb 27, 1993 scorecard
ODI matches	12
ODI statistics

Profile

A stockbroker and merchant banker too intelligent and ambitious to linger long in a game offering such modest financial rewards, Bob Cowper renounced Test cricket at 28, though not before he had built an impressive portfolio of achievement as a left-hand batsman and finger-spinner. His 12-hour 307 against England at Melbourne in February 1966 was the highest Test innings and the only triple-century on Australian soil until Matthew Hayden's 380 in 2003-04. His fertile cricket imagination and sense of injustice at the lot of the average Australian cricketer left a strong impression on Ian Chappell, in time a militant campaigner for the rights of his comrades.
Gideon Haigh