Rudolph Cohen

Rudolph Cohen
Personal information
Full name Rudolph Alexander Cohen
Born 4 August 1942
Kingston, Jamaica
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1963-64 to 1966-67 Jamaica
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 37
Runs scored 160
Batting average 7.27
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 32*
Balls bowled 4492
Wickets 82
Bowling average 31.80
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6/71
Catches/stumpings 15/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 28 June 2014

Rudolph Alexander Cohen (born 4 August 1942, Kingston, Jamaica) is a former Jamaican cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1963 to 1967. He toured England in 1966 with the West Indian team but did not play Test cricket.

A right-arm fast bowler, Cohen made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1963-64. In that season and the next two he played 15 matches[1] and took 27 wickets.[2]

He played club cricket in England in 1965, taking 33 wickets at an average of 13.84 for Smethwick in the Birmingham and District League,[3] and 17 wickets at 18.64 for Warwickshire Second XI.[4] In 1965-66, when Jamaica finished at the bottom of the Shell Shield table without a win, he took 10 wickets at 41.90.[5]

He was not in the original selected team to tour England in 1966, but when Lester King had to withdraw, Cohen was selected to replace him. He was the youngest player in the team.[6] The established pace trio of Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith and Gary Sobers played all five Tests, and Cohen played in 18 of the 22 other first-class matches, taking 40 wickets at 24.22, with his career-best innings figures of 6 for 71 against Sussex.[7]

King returned to the team when the West Indians toured India in 1966-67. Cohen led the Jamaican bowling in the Shell Shield later that season, with 15 wickets at 31.86,[8] but played no further first-class cricket thereafter.

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