Dennis Frank Cox was an English

English people

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er and cricket administrator. Cox was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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. He was born in Bermondsey

Bermondsey

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, London

London

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Cox made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut for Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...

 against the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 in 1949. He made 41 further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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 in 1957 County Championship. In his 41 first-class appearances for the university, he scored a total of 660 runs at an average

Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

 of 18.85, with a high score of 57. This score, was of four fifties he made, came against Gloucestershire in 1955. With the ball, he took 68 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 34.05, with best figures of 7/22. One of two five wicket hauls, these figures came against Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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 in 1952, with him taking match figures of 11/70. He left Surrey at the end of the 1958 season

1958 English cricket season

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He proceeded to join Cheshire

Cheshire County Cricket Club

Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in the 1961 Minor Counties Championship against Staffordshire

Staffordshire County Cricket Club

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. He played Minor counties cricket for Cheshire from 1961 to 1967. He made two List A appearances for Cheshire. The first of these came against Surrey in the 1964 Gillette Cup

1964 Gillette Cup

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. Again his former county, he went wicket-less and was dismissed for a duck

Duck (cricket)

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 by David Sydenham

David Sydenham

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. His second of these came against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1965 Gillette Cup

1965 Gillette Cup

The 1965 Gillette Cup was the third Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 23 April and 4 September 1965. The tournament was won by Yorkshire, following Geoff Boycott's 146 runs in the final at Lord's...

. Cox didn't bowl in this match, while with the bat he scored 2 runs before being dismissed by Ken Higgs

Ken Higgs

For the American basketball player, see Kenny Higgs.Ken Higgs was an English fast-medium bowler, who was most successful as the opening partner to Brian Statham with Lancashire in the 1960s...

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He later served at the President of Surrey County Cricket Club, in doing so becoming only the fourth former professional cricketer to do so. He died at Chislehurst

Chislehurst

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, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

 on 22 February 2001.

External links

• Dennis Cox at ESPNcricinfo
• Dennis Cox at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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