{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Use British English|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Archie Cotterell | image = | fullname = Thomas Archbold Cotterell | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|5|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Marylebone, London, England | death_date = | death_place = | heightft = | heightinch = | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox | role =
| club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1983–1985
| columns = 2 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 29 | runs1 = 617 | bat avg1 = 19.28 | 100s/50s1 = 0/2 | top score1 = 69* | deliveries1 = 4,796 | wickets1 = 41 | bowl avg1 = 62.78 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/89 | catches/stumpings1 = 6/– | column2 = List A | matches2 = 7 | runs2 = 15 | bat avg2 = 3.75 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 6 | deliveries2 = 426 | wickets2 = 5 | bowl avg2 = 57.00 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = n/a | best bowling2 = 2/42 | catches/stumpings2 = 2/– | date = 3 September | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11345.html Cricinfo }}
'''Thomas Archbold Cotterell''' (born 12 May 1963) is an English former cricketer and a novelist.
Cotterell was born at Marylebone in May 1963, and was educated at Downside School, before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge University List of Members |date=1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=293 |isbn=9780521434683 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AcAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Glamorgan at Fenner's in 1983. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge until 1985, making 29 appearances.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28748/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Thomas Cotterell |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing as an all-rounder, he scored 617 runs in his 29 appearances for Cambridge, at an average of 19.28 and a high score of 69 not out.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28748/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Archie Cotterell |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his slow left-arm orthodox bowling, Cotterell took 41 wickets at a bowling average of 62.78. Though largely ineffective with the ball, he did take a five-wicket haul against Essex in 1983, with figures of 5 for 89.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28748/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Archie Cotterell |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/43/43362.html |title=Cambridge University v Essex, 1983 |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In addition to playing first-class cricket while at Cambridge, he also made seven List A one-day appearances for the Combined Universities cricket team, making four appearances in the 1984 Benson & Hedges Cup and three appearances in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28748/List_A_Matches.html |title=List A Matches played by Archie Cotterell |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-09-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
After graduating from Cambridge, Cotterell worked in the City of London as an equities salesman for broking firm Hoare Govett and the investment bank Morgan Stanley.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/article/neverending-story-finally-has-a-happy-ending-3jp66nk0s |title=Neverending story finally has a happy ending |first=Dominic |last=Walsh |date=2017-04-25 |work=The Times |access-date=2019-09-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He left his job in the City in 2000 to pursue his ambition to become a novelist, later writing the psychological thriller ''What Alice Knew'', as well as contributing pieces to ''The Daily Telegraph''. He is married to Emily, they have three children.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/meet-city-boy-quit-job-write-novel-alarm-wife/ |title=Meet the City boy who quit a lucrative job to write a novel - much to the alarm of his wife |first=Archie |last=Cotterell |date=2017-04-24 |work=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=2019-09-03}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=11345}}
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