{{short description|English cricketer and teacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Graham Cottrell | image = | country = England | international = | fullname = Graham Allan Cottrell | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|3|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Datchet, Buckinghamshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1966–1968 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 39 | runs1 = 1108 | bat avg1 = 16.78 | 100s/50s1 = 0/2 | top score1 = 81 | deliveries1 = 4044 | wickets1 = 60 | bowl avg1 = 35.35 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 4/31 | catches/stumpings1 = 17/– | date = 15 December | year = 2014 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11352.html Cricinfo }} '''Graham Allan Cottrell''' (born 23 March 1945) is a former English first-class cricketer and teacher.
==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,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28755/28755.html Graham Cottrell at CricketArchive]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28755/f_Bowling_by_Season.html Graham Cottrell bowling by season]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29551.html Oxford University v Cambridge University 1968]</ref> He was the team's most effective bowler, but gave himself only 163 overs in 12 matches.<ref>''Wisden'' 1969, p. 684.</ref>
He sometimes scored useful runs in the lower order. His highest score was 81 against Nottinghamshire in 1967<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28666.html Cambridge University v Nottinghamshire 1967]</ref> when, after Cambridge were 69 for 6, he and Chris Pyemont added 142 for the seventh wicket at better than a run a minute.<ref>''Wisden'' 1968, p. 689.</ref> Later that season he made 50 in an hour against the touring Indian team.<ref>''Wisden'' 1968, p. 296.</ref>
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.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29055.html Surrey Second XI v Warwickshire Second XI 1967]</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stowe.co.uk/life-at-stowe/boarding-houses/cobham |title=Stowe School: Cobham |access-date=17 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218004452/http://www.stowe.co.uk/life-at-stowe/boarding-houses/cobham |archive-date=18 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=11352}} * [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28755/28755.html Graham Cottrell at CricketArchive]
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