Cowdrey 19th inductee into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

LONDON: Former England skipper Colin Cowdrey has been formally inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Cowdrey, who led England in 27 Tests, was inducted during a memorial lecture at Lord's, Wednesday night.
In a career spanning 21 years, he scored 7,624 runs in 114 Tests averaging 44.06. He made 22 centuries and 38 fifties and was the first player to appear in 100 Tests.
He started playing for England in 1954.
Cowdrey's son Chris, the former England, Glamorgan and Kent player, received the cap on behalf of his father.
"It is a proud moment for me to be here to accept this cap on behalf of my father. And how proud he would have been to be included in the ICC's Cricket Hall of Fame, if only so he could challenge for a place in England's top seven of all time," he added.
"I'd like to thank the ICC very much on behalf of my father and may the spirit of cricket live on," he said.
ICC President David Morgan, who presented the cap, said, "It is great honour to have presented Chris with his father's cap and I cannot think of a more fitting occasion to have done so than at the Cowdrey Lecture last night."