deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
30 1 17/0 1946 0 leg-break english 0 right-handed batsman fred cooper 1950 first-class true 15 may http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10804.html cricinfo 15 may 1,369 1946 0 14 july 1/6 44 fred cooper -lrb- cricketer , born 1921 -rrb-

fred cooper -lrb- cricketer , born 1921 -rrb-

fred cooper -lrb- 18 april 1921 -- 22 december 1986 -rrb- was an english cricketer who played first-class cricket for lancashire and worcestershire shortly after the second world war .
cooper had played for lancashire 's second xi as a teenager before the war , but his first-class debut came for that county against oxford university in may 1946 ; he made 6 and 20 not out .
later that season he made his county championship bow against leicestershire , playing three championship games in total , all in july .
however , he left the county for worcestershire at the end of the season .
1947 was nothing special for cooper as his 26 innings brought only 380 runs at 18.09 , but the following summer he had his best season in county cricket , hitting 618 runs at 22.88 including his only first-class century : 113 not out in the second innings against nottinghamshire ; his brother and team-mate edwin had made exactly 100 in the first innings of the same match .
1948 also saw cooper selected for west of england against east of england , the last such first-class match .
he made 53 and 16 , but the west were beaten by 223 runs .
in the 1949 and 1950 seasons , cooper played only intermittently for the worcestershire first team , spending a considerable amount of time turning out for the second xi in the minor counties championship .
he made one first-class half-century in each season , but he was dismissed for single-figure scores in 13 of his 20 innings , and after the 1950 season his time in first-class cricket was brought to an end .
cooper was born in bacup , lancashire ; he died in stourport-on-severn , worcestershire at the age of 65 .
his brother edwin had a much longer career with worcestershire , playing 249 times for the county .
