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Australia
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AUS
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Colin McCool
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Legbreak googly
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14
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459
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3530
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1/1
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104
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2504
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36
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2661
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3
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0
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5/41
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14/0
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251
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3285
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18/66
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172
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602
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34
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2
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8/74
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263/2
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29 March
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1946
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3 March
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1950
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(born
December 9 ,
1916 ,
Paddington, New South Wales , died
April 5 ,
1986 ,
Concord, New South Wales ) was an
Australia n
Cricket er who played in 14
Tests from 1946 to 1950, and later had success in
England .
A leg-spin bowler good enough to play all five
Tests for
Australia against England under
Donald Bradman in 1946-47, he was also a useful lower order batsman, and scored an unbeaten century in the match at
Melbourne . He later played Tests against India, but by the time McCool toured England under Bradman in 1948 he had fallen out of favour with the selectors and did not figure in the Test side.
Like many cricketers of the era, McCool took up professional contracts with
Lancashire League teams, but was tempted back into
First-class Cricket in 1956 with
Somerset , as the
West Country side recruited widely to take themselves off the bottom of the
County Championship , where they had languished for four years.
At Somerset, McCool was an instant success as a batsman, scoring 1,915 runs in his first season, and took occasional useful wickets with now very gentle leg-spin. In 1957, he was joined at
Taunton by another Australian,
Bill Alley , and in the wet summer of 1958 Somerset finished third in the Championship, their highest position since 1892.
McCool stayed with Somerset until 1960, when he retired. His son, Russell, made occasional appearances for Somerset in the 1980s.
