Full Name Norman George Cowans Born ( 1961-04-17 ) 17 April 1961 (age 63) Birth Place St. Mary, Jamaica Name Norman Cowans | Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling style Right-arm fast |
Middlesex West Indian fast bowlers, Wayne Daniel and Norman Cowans, 1983
| Competition | Tests | ODIs |
| Matches | 19 | 23 |
| Runs scored | 175 | 13 |
| Batting average | 7.95 | 2.60 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- |
| Top score | 36 | 4* |
| Balls bowled | 3452 | 1282 |
| Wickets | 51 | 23 |
| Bowling average | 39.27 | 39.69 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 2 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | 6/77 | 3/44 |
| Catches/stumpings | 9/- | 5/- |
Norman George Cowans (born 17 April 1961) is a former cricketer who played in 19 Tests and 23 ODIs from 1982 to 1985 for England. He played first-class cricket for Middlesex and Hampshire. He was born at Enfield, St Mary, Jamaica.
Contents
- Middlesex West Indian fast bowlers Wayne Daniel and Norman Cowans 1983
- CRICKET NORMAN COWANS
- Life and career
- References
Cowans was a right-arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman.
CRICKET, NORMAN COWANS.
Life and career
Cowans was born in the Caribbean, but moved to England with his family when he was eleven. He played County Championship cricket for Middlesex and then Hampshire, winning three Championships and four limited-overs titles (all with Middlesex) in his fifteen seasons. On his first tour overseas, on Englands defence of the Ashes in Australia in 1982/83, he often struggled, was wayward in line and length, and was underbowled by captain, Bob Willis, until the crucial Fourth Test at Melbourne, a match England had to win if they had any hope of retaining the Ashes they won at home in 1981.
Cowans played the game of his life at the MCG in 1983, where he took a match-winning 6 for 77, following his first innings 2 for 69 (which included the first ball scalp of Greg Chappell), in Englands dramatic three run victory. For these five days, Cowans was the star of English cricket, and had sent the series to Sydney for the deciding Fifth Test, which ended in a draw.
Cowans was nicknamed Flash as a result of being able to bowl a cricket ball at almost 100 mph.
He was Richard Hadlees 200th Test wicket, of which Hadlee said: "I would have preferred it to have been Gower, Randall, or Lamb, but Flash will do in the circumstances!"