Rick McCosker
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| Full name | Richard Bede McCosker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 December 1946 Inverell, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 272) | 4 January 1975 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 6 February 1980 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 29) | 7 June 1975 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 17 January 1982 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1973/74–1983/84 | New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 19 November 2011
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Richard Bede McCosker (born 11 December 1946, Inverell, New South Wales) is a former New South Wales and Australian cricketer.
McCosker played in 25 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals in a career spanning 1975 to 1982 playing as a right hand batsman.
He is well remembered for playing in the 1977 Centenary Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground after he had his jaw broken by a bouncer off Bob Willis in the 1st innings. In the second innings he batted at number ten in bandages with his jaw wired shut, making 25, and 54 for the ninth wicket in partnership with Rod Marsh. Australia won the match by 45 runs.
He also played in the World Series Cricket team, and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1976.
He is depicted by Aidan March in the Channel 9 series Howzat! Kerry Packer's War.
McCosker was born in Inverell. He moved to Sydney aged 21 to work in a bank. It took him six years to graduate from grade cricket to the NSW side.
He was selected as 12th man for NSW in 1973-74
He scored a century in his debut first class game.
McCosker started the 1974-75 brilliantly scoring 682 runs. He was picked in the Australian side for the fourth test against England replacing Wally Edwards. He scored 80 in the first innings, but was injured and did not bat in the second.
In the fifth test he made 35 and 11. In the 6th he scored 0 and 76.
He was picked in the squad to tour England to play the World Cup and a four-test series.
In the World Cup, McCosker scored 73 against Sri Lanka. 0 against the West Indies, 15 against England in the semi final and 7 in the final.
McCosker's scores in the first three tests of the 1975 ashes were 59, 29 and 79, and 0 and 95 not out. He was 95 not out with one day to play the test was abandoned due to the pitch being vandalised.
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