deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 6 1 3/0 1951-1953 23 december 1927 - england cambridge university - right-handed batsman john cockett john ashley cockett broadstairs , kent , england first-class batsman http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/28/28611/28611.html cricketarchive 1927 12 23 yes 311 0 1/2 8 john cockett

john cockett

john ashley cockett -lrb- born 23 december 1927 in broadstairs -rrb- is a former english sportsman who was an olympic bronze medal winning field hockey player for england and great britain .
he also played first-class and minor counties cricket .
cockett attended cambridge university and won his blues at both cricket and hockey .
as a cricketer he was a middle-order batsman while his hockey was played as a half-back .
he made seven first-class appearances for cambridge university in 1951 and made a century against sussex in worthing to help set up a 137 run win .
from 1949 to 1962 , cockett regularly played in the minor counties cricket championship for buckinghamshire .
on leaving cambridge cockett became a master at felsted school where he taught mathematics and coached cricket and hockey .
at the 1952 summer olympics in helsinki , cockett was a member of the great britain hockey team which won the bronze medal by defeating pakistan 2-1 .
he narrowly missed out on another medal in the 1956 melbourne olympics when his side finished fourth after losing 3-1 to germany .
cockett 's only other first-class match was in 1953 , when he played with the minor counties cricket team against the touring australians which included alan davidson , ray lindwall , bill johnston and richie benaud .
cockett scored no runs in either innings .
at felsted cockett coached several future first class cricket players including nick knight , derek pringle and john stephenson .
he retired in 1989 .
