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| Full name | Alexander Coxon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1916-01-18)18 January 1916 Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 January 2006(2006-01-22) (aged 90) Roker,Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test | 24 June 1948 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Coxon (18 January 1916 – 22 January 2006)[1] was an Englishcricketer who played forYorkshire. He also played oneTest match for theEngland cricket team in 1948.[1]
Coxon was born inHuddersfield, Yorkshire.[1]World War II delayed Coxon'sfirst-class debut for Yorkshire to 1945, when he was 29.[2] Coxon was an aggressive fast-medium bowler who played for England once – againstAustralia in1948 atLord's. Coxon was included in the team for the final Test at Oval againstWest Indies in 1950 to cover for the injuredTrevor Bailey but Bailey eventually played.[3] There were rumours of an argument withDenis Compton, and his prickly nature was later attested to byBrian Close. Coxon retired after the1950 season,[2] allegedly in umbrage at his non-selection for the forthcomingAshes tour, and moved to playMinor counties cricket withDurham. He played 29 times for that county between 1951 and 1954, taking 127 wickets and scoring 1,047 runs with two centuries. His highest score was 102 not out against Yorkshire Second XI atScarborough in 1952. Also in 1952, he achieved his best bowling figures for Durham; nine for 28 and six for 58 againstStaffordshire.
He also played professionally with Sunderland, where he took 753 wickets at 8.73 runs apiece, and scored 3,764 runs at an average of 34.21.
In 1959, he moved toSouth Shields where he took 443 wickets for 10.28 and scored 2,663 runs at 23.63. He had shorter spells with both Wearmouth and Bolden, before finally retiring from the sport some distance past his 50th birthday, although still coaching atWhitburn Cricket Club in 1979.
He also played soccer forBradford Park Avenue A.F.C. in wartime matches. He kept up a keen interest in club cricket until the end.
Coxsone DoddCD (26 January 1932 – 4 May 2004), a Jamaican record producer who was highly influential worldwide in the development and evolution ofska,reggae, dub, and sound system culture as an international phenomenon, was nicknamed "Coxsone" due to his talent as acricketer, his friends comparing him to Alec Coxon.[4]
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