Russell Alan Cobb (born 18 May 1961) is an English former

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er who played more than one-hundred and fifty matches for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

and

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across a career than ran from 1980 until 1989. A right-handed batsman, he scored over 4,000 runs across the first-class and

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formats, though he never made a century. He also bowled left-arm medium pace and slow left-arm

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, though only very occasionally. His son,

Josh Cobb Joshua James Cobb (born 17 August 1990) is an English cricket player. He currently plays for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. He is a top order batsmen and occasional off spin, off-spinner. He was man of the match in the 2011 Friends Life ...

, also played for Leicestershire.

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