David William Cox, born at Oakhill

Oakhill

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, Somerset

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 on 19 May 1946, was a cricketer

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 who played in one first-class

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 match for Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in 1969.

Cox was a lower-order right hand batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He played a few second eleven matches for the combined Somerset and Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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 side in 1968. His only first-class game came the following year, 1969, when he played for Somerset against Hampshire

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 at the United Services Ground, Portsmouth

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. He scored eight runs in two innings and took one wicket, that of Peter Sainsbury

Peter Sainsbury

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.

His son, Andrew Cox, played for Somerset's second eleven in 1998.