Michael Cottam (born 23 September 1966) 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. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

. He was born in

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. Cottam, who represented three different Second XI teams between 1983 and 1986, and who represented Devon in the Minor Counties Championship in 1988, made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1988 NatWest Trophy, against

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. From the tailend, he did not bat in the match, but he took figures of 0–51 with the ball from twelve overs of bowling.

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