Mark Henry David Cox (5 December 1905 – 27 March 1979) was an English

cricket 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 ...

er. Cox was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow. He was born at Abington, Northamptonshire. Cox made three first-class appearances for Northamptonshire in the

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against Gloucestershire, Kent, and Gloucestershire again. In his three first-class matches, he scored 8 runs at an average of 2.00, with a high score of 5. With the ball he took 2 wickets at a

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of 31.00, with best figures of 2/11. He died at Pontypridd,

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, Wales on 27 March 1979. His father, also called Mark, and brother, Arthur, both played first-class cricket.

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