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Colin McCool

Colin McCool
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Personal information
Full name Colin Leslie McCool
Born (1916-12-09)9 December 1916
Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Died 5 April 1986(1986-04-05) (aged 69)
Concord, New South Wales, Australia
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm leg spin
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 166) 29 March 1946 v New Zealand
Last Test 3 March 1950 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
1939/40–1940/41 New South Wales
1945/46–1952/53 Queensland
1956–1960 Somerset
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 14 251
Runs scored 459 12,421
Batting average 35.30 32.85
100s/50s 1/1 18/66
Top score 104* 172
Balls bowled 2,504 35,227
Wickets 36 602
Bowling average 26.61 27.47
5 wickets in innings 3 34
10 wickets in match  – 2
Best bowling 5/41 8/74
Catches/stumpings 14/– 263/2
Source: CricketArchive, 22 December 2007

Colin Leslie McCool (9 December 1916 – 5 April 1986) was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests from 1946 to 1950. McCool, born in Paddington, New South Wales, was an all-rounder who bowled leg spin and googlies with a round arm action and as a lower order batsman was regarded as effective square of the wicket and against spin bowling. He made his Test début against New Zealand in 1946, taking a wicket with his second delivery. He was part of Donald Bradman's Invincibles team that toured England in 1948 but injury saw him miss selection in any of the Test matches.

A good tour of South Africa in 1949–50 was followed by a lack of opportunity in the next two seasons, leading McCool to sign a contract to play professional cricket in the Lancashire League in 1953. Three years later, Somerset County Cricket Club recruited McCool where he was a success, especially as a middle-order batsman; he played five seasons and saw the club achieve its highest place in the County Championship since 1892. He retired from cricket in 1960 and returned to Australia to work as a market gardener. He died in Concord, New South Wales on 5 April 1986.

As a child growing up in Paddington, McCool attended Crown Street State School—earlier students included Victor Trumper and Monty Noble. He played his childhood cricket on concrete wickets in Moore Park and learnt to bowl from reading Clarrie Grimmett's instructional book, Getting Wickets. McCool played his early grade cricket with Paddington Cricket Club before coming to the notice of the New South Wales selectors. He made his first-class début for New South Wales against "Rest of Australia" in March 1940, making 19 and 15 and taking one wicket. While the Australian Cricket Board suspended the Sheffield Shield competition at the end of the 1939–40 season, at the request of the Australian government, a series of matches were arranged to raise money for wartime charities in the following 1940–41 season. McCool played in six of these matches for New South Wales, scoring 416 runs at average of 52.00 and taking 24 wickets at an average of 23.50.


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