Graham Cottrell

Graham Allan Cottrell (born 23 March 1945) is a former first-class cricketer and teacher.

Graham Cottrell

Personal information
Full name	Graham Allan Cottrell
Born	(1945-03-23) 23 March 1945 (age 80) Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1966–1968	Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 39 Runs scored 1108 Batting average 16.78 100s/50s 0/2 Top score 81 Balls bowled 4044 Wickets 60 Bowling average 35.35 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 4/31 Catches/stumpings 17/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 December 2014

Life and career

Cottrell attended Kingston Grammar School before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He won a Blue for hockey at Cambridge University and also played for Cambridgeshire,^[1] but was more prominent as a cricketer, playing for the university side from 1966 to 1968 and captaining the team in 1968.

Cottrell was principally a medium-pace bowler. He took 20 wickets at an average of 38.80 in 1966 and 18 at 43.72 in 1967.^[2] His best season was 1968, when he took 22 at 25.36, including his best figures of 4 for 31 in his final first-class match, against Oxford University.^[3] He was the team's most effective bowler, but gave himself only 163 overs in 12 matches.^[4]

He sometimes scored useful runs in the lower order. His highest score was 81 against Nottinghamshire in 1967^[5] when, after Cambridge were 69 for 6, he and Chris Pyemont added 142 for the seventh wicket at better than a run a minute.^[6] Later that season he made 50 in an hour against the touring Indian team.^[7]

Cottrell played for Surrey Second XI from 1966 to 1970. In their 17-run victory over Warwickshire Second XI in 1967 he took 4 for 2 and 5 for 48.^[8] He also played a few games of Minor Counties cricket for Cambridgeshire in 1976.

Cottrell became a school teacher. He taught at Stowe School, where he was housemaster of Cobham House from 1990 to 2000.^[9]