David Mathew Cox was an English

England

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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 who played first-class cricket for Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. Its limited overs team is called the Durham Dynamos. Their kit colours are blue with yellow trim and the shirt sponsor was...

 between 1994 and 1997. He was a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. Cox was born in Southall

Southall

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, Middlesex

Middlesex

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.

Cox's career started in the Second XI Championship, where he played his first game in 1990 for Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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. He moved to Durham and was picked on a regular basis during the 1992 Second XI competition, and two years later, made his County Championship

County Championship

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 debut against Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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 - the same match in which Brian Lara

Brian Lara

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...

made his world-record first-class innings of 501 not out.

Durham finished the 1995 County Championship second-bottom of the table, and while Cox made four half-centuries the following year, he began the following season suffering from a bad spate of form, and was quickly dropped from the team, Durham's County Championship form barely having improved during this time.

Cox bowled two individual five-wicket innings during his spell at the club, and took one ten-wicket match-haul, in a match against Warwickshire in August 1996.

External links

• David Cox at Cricket Archive