Colin Cowdrey snapped his Achilles tendon and the selectors made the surprise choice of Ray Illingworth as his replacement.

But, Smith was known as a good tourist and was made captain of the England tour of India in 1963-64 when Ted Dexter and Colin Cowdrey were unavailable and without England's top bowlers Brian Statham and Fred Trueman.

Sheppard made 112 for the Gentlemen and was chosen for the tour, but Dexter was confirmed as captain for the remainder of the home series and the forthcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand with Cowdrey as vice-captain.

Hutton contributed few runs, but Cowdrey and Peter May made large scores and Tyson took seven wickets as Australia were bowled out for 111 in their second innings, giving England a 128-run victory.

In June 2009, speaking at the annual Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's, former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist pushed for Twenty20 to be made an Olympic sport.

Barrington made 60 and added 99 with Colin Cowdrey ( who arm was broken by Wes Hall ) and Brian Close, and hit Gibbs for a six followed by another onto the Lords balcony.

In the Third Test at the Oval England were set 399 to win and Barrington made 73, adding 135 with Colin Cowdrey to take England to 308 / 4 when rain ended play.

He played in the Second Test at Lords with Colin Cowdrey in charge, but made only 19 and 5 in the drawn match.

He made 148, his first Test century at Lords, and became the sixth batsman to make 6, 000 Test runs after Wally Hammond, Don Bradman, Len Hutton, Neil Harvey and Colin Cowdrey.

The West Indies had made 526 / 7 and England replied with 404, where Cowdrey ( 148 ) and Barrington ( 48 ) added 133 for the third wicket.

His greatest century was against the West Indies in 1957 when England followed on 288 runs behind at Edgbaston, he made 285 not out, the highest score by an England captain until Graham Gooch's 333 in 1990, adding 411 with Colin Cowdrey ( 154 )-still an England record for any wicket-and destroyed the mesmerizing hold the spinner Sonny Ramadhin had over English batsmen.

The addition of new GM Josh Roehr coming from the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League ( UFL ) and the hiring of Bruce Cowdrey as head coach has made the Beef an even more solid franchise.

Mallett made his Test debut, taking the wicket of Colin Cowdrey with his fifth ball, breaching his defences and trapping him leg before wicket.

Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, CBE ( 24 December 19324 December 2000 ), better known as Colin Cowdrey, was the Captain of Oxford University, Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team in a career that lasted from 1950 to 1976.

Brian Close was dropped as England captain in favour of Colin Cowdrey.

Back in England in 1965, Smith beat a weak New Zealand 3-0, then lost 1-0 to South Africa, but was appointed captain for the MCC tour of Australia in 1965-66 with Cowdrey as vice-captain, despite support for the Kent captain at Lords.

His Test career included 22 centuries ( an England record held jointly with Wally Hammond and Colin Cowdrey ).

Dexter captained England in the First and Second Tests against Pakistan, winning two big victories, but Colin Cowdrey was put in charge for the Third Test.

His cause was not helped by the announcement of the Mike Gatting's Rebel tour of South Africa in the middle of the series, which removed the England players Bill Athey, Kim Barnett, Ian Butcher, Chris Broad, Chris Cowdrey, Graham Dilley, Richard Ellison, John Emburey, Phil DeFreitas, Neil Foster, Bruce French, Paul Jarvis, Matthew Maynard, Tim Robinson, Greg Thomas and Alan Wells from contention.

The 1958 side was skippered by future England captain Ted Dexter and his first victim behind the stumps, on his debut for Cambridge against Kent, was also another future England captain, Colin Cowdrey, whom he caught off Dexter's bowling.

Of the next generation of England batsmen, Peter May tried to adopt Hutton's mental approach to both batting and captaincy, while Colin Cowdrey later said " I had tried to model myself on Len Hutton ever since I started playing serious cricket.

Even though England won again Cowdrey was available again and Barrington was dropped.

A last minute collapse left England 228 / 9 with Cowdrey returning to the crease in the last over with victory, defeat, a tie or a draw still possible.

Brian Close was replaced by Colin Cowdrey for the MCC tour of the West Indies in 1967 – 68, his third spell as England captain and he was determined to make a success of it.

Cowdrey played for Kent, Glamorgan and England as an all-rounder.

Following the tour, where he had scored 96 runs and taken four wickets Cowdrey was not selected by England until 1988, and the infamous " summer of four captains ".

Colin and Chris Cowdrey were only the second father and son combination to have both captained England, emulating Frank and George Mann.

Cricket writer Colin Bateman stated, " Cowdrey was fortunate to play Test cricket at all, but he did not deserve the shabby treatment which ended his brief England career ".

However, Ray Illingworth and Colin Cowdrey, captain and vice captain of England's Test side, contacted him via telephone to ask him to travel to Australia and join the current England tour there.

Cowdrey's son Fabian Cowdrey was awarded a first-team contract at Kent in October 2011, before his May 2012 debut, becoming the fourth Cowdrey to play for the county side and the third generation of the same family to feature on a Kent team sheet.

Various dates are given, with Ian Walker, the biographer of Harold arguing for between 1053 and 1055, but H. E. J. Cowdrey, who wrote Robert's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, says on 26 May in either 1052 or 1055.

The previous Test record was held by an English pair — Peter May and Colin Cowdrey — who put on 411 against West Indies at Birmingham in May 1957.

The Fourth Test at Old Trafford gave him 87 as his missed out on another century, but captain Colin Cowdrey gave him the ball and he took 3 / 36 with his leg-spin.

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In the Fourth Test Cowdrey thought a shout was Grout was Ken Barrington calling him for a run and he was run out as England collapsed to 241 all out on the first day and lost by an innings, Grout taking 3 catches in the second innings.

A few days before he died he asked the England vice-captain Colin Cowdrey to write a forward on his book on the 1962 – 63 Ashes series ;

With Peter May and Colin Cowdrey declining to tour India and Pakistan in 1961-62 Dexter was chosen to lead the MCC team.

Peter May had missed the two Tests in 1961 and declined to make the gruelling 8 Test tour of India and Pakistan in 1961 – 62 and Colin Cowdrey, Fred Trueman and Brian Statham also declined to go.

After a good season for Kent in County cricket in 1984, Cowdrey was selected for England's 1984-85 tour of India, led by his friend David Gower, ostensibly taking Ian Botham's place after Botham had opted out of the tour.

A newspaper article penned by Cowdrey landed him in trouble in the corridors at Lord's and, in 1990, he joined a rebel tour to South Africa.

He toured Australia a record six times, a feat only equalled by Colin Cowdrey.

In the first innings of the Second Test he took 3 catches in a innings and although Australia lost the Third Test at Sydney by an innings Colin Cowdrey, M. J. K.