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Australian cricket is mourning the loss of another great after Bob Cowper died aged 84 following a cancer battle.
The Victorian played 27 Tests and averaged 46.84, scoring five tons, while playing alongside the likes of Bob Simpson, Doug Walters, Ian Chappell and Bill Lawry.
Cowper’s famous 307 across an astonishing 12 hours in the 1965-66 MCG Ashes Test was the first triple-century scored on Australian soil.
He also took 36 wickets at an average of 31.63 — but would not play a single Test match after the age of 27.
He retired for good before turning 30, finishing on a high with Victoria’s Sheffield Shield triumph in 1970 and turning his focus to business.
Cowper is the third 1970s Victorian great and Australian Test cricketer to die in the past six months.
Ian Redpath died aged 83 late last year while Keith Stackpole died at 84 last month.
Cowper is survived by wife Dale and daughters Olivia and Sera.
“R.I.P Bob Cowper. Good man. Lived like an amateur, played like a pro,” Test veteran turned popular commentator Kerry O’Keeffe said.
A Victorian Cricket Hall of Famer and life member, Cowper had a lucrative post-cricket career as a stockbroker and merchant banker.
But he was not lost to his sport.
Cowper was a match referee and Australia’s representative to the ICC from 1987 to 2001.
He was recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2023.
Australian cricket is mourning the loss of another great after Bob Cowper died aged 84 following a cancer battle.
The Victorian played 27 Tests and averaged 46.84, scoring five tons, while playing alongside the likes of Bob Simpson, Doug Walters, Ian Chappell and Bill Lawry.
Cowper’s famous 307 across an astonishing 12 hours in the 1965-66 MCG Ashes Test was the first triple-century scored on Australian soil.
He also took 36 wickets at an average of 31.63 — but would not play a single Test match after the age of 27.
He retired for good before turning 30, finishing on a high with Victoria’s Sheffield Shield triumph in 1970 and turning his focus to business.
Cowper is the third 1970s Victorian great and Australian Test cricketer to die in the past six months.
Ian Redpath died aged 83 late last year while Keith Stackpole died at 84 last month.
Cowper is survived by wife Dale and daughters Olivia and Sera.
“R.I.P Bob Cowper. Good man. Lived like an amateur, played like a pro,” Test veteran turned popular commentator Kerry O’Keeffe said.
A Victorian Cricket Hall of Famer and life member, Cowper had a lucrative post-cricket career as a stockbroker and merchant banker.
But he was not lost to his sport.
Cowper was a match referee and Australia’s representative to the ICC from 1987 to 2001.
He was recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2023.
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