Bob Cowper
INTL CAREER: 1964 - 1968
Full Name
Robert Maskew Cowper
Born
October 05, 1940, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
Age
83y 212d
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Batting Allrounder
RELATIONS
(brother)
Other
Referee
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.
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