Career Highlights
- 1950: Made first appearance for Kent County Cricket Club, the start of a 26-year playing association with the county.
- 1954: Chosen for Australian tour and made England debut in the first Test. Maiden Test century in the third.
- 1957: Partnership of 411 with Peter May to save Test against the West Indies. Appointed captain of Kent.
- 1959: Captained England for the first time.
- 1962: Highest first-class score, 307 for MCC against South Australia.
- 1963: Batted with a broken wrist to help England avoid defeat by the West Indies at Lord's.
- 1965: His best season for Kent with 2,039 runs at average of 63.42.
- 1968: Captained England to a 1-0 Test series victory in the West Indies.
- 1970: Led Kent to their first County Championship since 1913.
- 1971: Played last home match against Pakistan, and retired from Kent captaincy.
- 1972: Awarded the CBE.
- 1975: Final Test, his 114th, at the age of 42 as an emergency replacement on tour of Australia.
- 1976: Retired from first-class cricket with 42,719 runs at an average of 42.89, including 107 centuries, highest score 307.
- 1986: President of the MCC in its bicentennial year, later chairman of ICC.
- 1992: Knighted for services to cricket.
- 1997: Appointed to the House of Lords as Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge
He was the first cricketer to play 100 Test matches.
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