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Cowdrey

British  
/ ˈkaʊdrɪ /

noun

  1. ( Michael ) Colin , Baron. 1932–2000, English cricketer. He played for Kent and in 114 Test matches (captaining England 27 times)

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A day later, Root and Harry Brook set a new England partnership record of 454 runs, beating the previous best of 411 made by Colin Cowdrey and Peter May 57 years ago.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024

Tutu explained what sports came to mean to him as the keynote speaker at the Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture in 2008 in London.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022

Cowdrey certainly deserves greater acclaim — and more readers — but that’s true even of Barry N. Malzberg, a living legend of science fiction.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

Cowdrey is the promoter of long-running queer night Homoelectric – “a genuine alternative to the commercial stranglehold”, as he sees it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2018

Smith the brother of the Prophet, and also one of the twelve; but that if Cowdrey and I confessed, it would be a cloak for the other two.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Lewis, Alfred Henry