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During his time at Somerset, he was known for " a match with his cracking strokes in an hour.
" Alan Gibson wrote: " We hardly think of him as a stylist, and he was mostly a back-foot player, getting the greater number of his runs in the segments fanning out from point and square-leg.
But he was enjoyable to watch, compact, tidy, combining powerful hitting with delicate placing.
In the best Somerset tradition, he was always after the bowling, and in the best Australian tradition, he always relished a fight.
" But he also adapted his style to suit English pitches: in an early innings for Somerset, he was out trying to hook a ball from Trevor Bailey.
" The hook, he decided, was a stroke to be used sparingly on English pitches ... McCool was constantly amending his technique that season, whenever he spotted a flaw in his method.
Again and again he held the Somerset batting together.
Nothing in his previous experience had equipped him for the task of holding up a losing side in a damp English summer.

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