| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm off break | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Australian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 27 | 147 | ||
| Runs scored | 2061 | 10595 | ||
| Batting average | 46.84 | 53.78 | ||
| 100s/50s | 5/10 | 26/58 | ||
| Top score | 307 | 307 | ||
| Balls bowled | 3005 | 14917 | ||
| Wickets | 36 | 183 | ||
| Bowling average | 31.63 | 31.19 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | ||
| Best bowling | 4/48 | 7/42 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 21/0 | 151/0 | ||
| Source: [1], | ||||
Robert Maskew Cowper (born 5 October 1940 in Kew, Melbourne, educated at Scotch College Melbourne) was an Australian Test match cricketer in the 1960s, who also played for Victorian and Western Australia.
He was the son of Denis Cowper, the captain of the Australia national rugby union team. Cowper was a tall, correct left-handed batsmen who was dropped in the 1965-66 Ashes series for slow scoring. When he was recalled he for the Fifth Test at Melbourne he made the first Test triple century in Australia; 307 in 727 minutes. Matthew Hayden's 380 against Zimbabwe in 2002–03 is now the highest Test century in Australia, but Cowper's remains the longest. Remarkably he averaged an impressive 75.78 in home Tests but only 33.33 overseas. The difference of 42.45 is a Test match record.[1] Since retiring from playing, he has served as a cricket referee.