5 English cricketers who were born in India

#4 Colin Cowdrey

Cowdrey was the first cricketer to play 100 test matches

Cowdrey was born on December 24, 1932, in Bangalore. Cowdrey’s father, Ernest Cowdrey too was a cricketer himself and had played for the touring MCC side in India. It is his father who taught him the game at a very young age.

Cowdrey moved to England when he was just five and took up the game in the county. He was the first ever cricketer to play in 100 Test matches, captained England 27 times and scored almost 43,000 first-class runs - 7,624 of them in the longest form of the game.

Overall he scored 22 hundreds in Test including the one he smashed in his 100^th game. He also holds the record for being the first batsman to score a hundred century against all 6 contemporary Test playing nations – both home and away.

He was also a leg break bowler but never picked any international wicket. Following his retirement from the game, Cowdrey donned the hat of an administrator and served as Chairman of the ICC.