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Cowdrey

British

/ ˈkaʊdrɪ /

noun

( Michael ) Colin , Baron. 1932–2000, English cricketer. He played for Kent and in 114 Test matches (captaining England 27 times)

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He was the youngest member of a squad led by Ted Dexter and containing bona fide greats like Colin Cowdrey, Ray Illingworth, Fred Trueman and Brian Statham.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Tutu explained what sports came to mean to him as the keynote speaker at the Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture in 2008 in London.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022

Initially a stand-in for the injured Colin Cowdrey, he kept the job as England were unbeaten in Tests for three years.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2021

Cowdrey certainly deserves greater acclaim — and more readers — but that’s true even of Barry N. Malzberg, a living legend of science fiction.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

Smith the brother of the Prophet, and also one of the twelve; but that if Cowdrey and I confessed, it would be a cloak for the other two.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Lewis, Alfred Henry

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