# Graham Cottrell

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{{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](/source/Datchet), [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire), England
|            heightft =
|          heightinch =
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = Right-arm medium
|                role = 
|               club1 = [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club)
|               year1 = 1966–1968
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            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 cricket](/source/first-class_cricket)er and teacher.

==Life and career==
Cottrell attended [Kingston Grammar School](/source/Kingston_Grammar_School) before going up to [St Catharine's College, Cambridge](/source/St_Catharine's_College%2C_Cambridge). He won a [Blue](/source/Blue_(university_sport)) for [hockey](/source/Field_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](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) from 1966 to 1968 and [captaining](/source/Captain_(cricket)) 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](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club).<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](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'' 1969, p. 684.</ref>

He sometimes scored useful runs in the lower order. His highest score was 81 against [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club) 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](/source/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](/source/India_cricket_team).<ref>''Wisden'' 1968, p. 296.</ref>

Cottrell played for [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club) Second XI from 1966 to 1970. In their 17-run victory over [Warwickshire](/source/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club) 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](/source/Minor_Counties_Cricket_Championship) for [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire_County_Cricket_Club) in 1976.

Cottrell became a school teacher. He taught at [Stowe School](/source/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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Category:People from Datchet
Category:People educated at Kingston Grammar School
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Category:English cricketers
Category:English men's field hockey players
Category:Cambridge University cricketers
Category:Schoolteachers from Buckinghamshire
Category:Cambridgeshire cricketers
Category:Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers
Category:20th-century English sportsmen

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