Bertram Clifford Cooley (1874 – 17 August 1935) was a South African

cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

who played first-class cricket for Natal from 1894 to 1907. Cooley was a hard-hitting but inconsistent batsman and a useful bowler."Obituary", '' The Cricketer'', Annual 1935, p. 87. He toured England with the South African team in 1901, scoring 126 not out batting at number nine against Cambridge University, but achieving little in the other matches. Batting at number ten in his final first-class innings, in the 1906-07 Currie Cup against Western Province, he went to the wicket with Natal's score at 100 for 8, then made 113, adding 217 for the ninth wicket with

Dave Nourse Arthur William "Dave" Nourse (26 January 1878 (some sources say 25 January 1879) – 8 July 1948) was a cricketer who played for Natal, Transvaal, Western Province and South Africa. Life and career A left-handed batsman and left-arm medium- ...

; Natal won by 165 runs.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooley, Bertram 1874 births 1935 deaths South African cricketers KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Cricketers from Durban