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Full name Robert Maskew Cowper
Born October 5, 1940, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
Current age 68 years 44 days
Major teams Australia,Marylebone Cricket Club,Victoria,Western Australia
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Other Referee
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
27
46
2
2061
307
46.84
5
10
0
21
0
First-class
147
228
31
10595
307
53.78
26
58
151
0
List A
4
4
1
77
33
25.66
0
0
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
27
36
3005
1139
36
4/48
7/135
31.63
2.27
83.4
3
0
0
First-class
147
14917
5709
183
7/42
31.19
2.29
81.5
1
0
List A
4
100
59
3
2/17
2/17
19.66
3.54
33.3
0
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
1959/60 - 1969/70
List A span
1969/70 - 1969/70
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
