About Norman Cowans
Norman George Cowans (born 17 April 1961) is a former cricketer who mainly played as a right-arm fast bowler. He was the 500th cricketer to play Test cricket for England, featuring between 1982 and 1985 in 19 Test matches and 23 One Day Internationals. Cowans also played first-class and List A cricket for both Middlesex and Hampshire. He won four County Championship titles along with four limited-overs titles with Middlesex. Andrew Miller of CricInfo described him as "an integral member of the most successful Middlesex team of all time." Cowans picked up a sum of 532 first-class and 212 List A wickets in a combined 362 appearances for the said side. At first he worked as a member of the groundstaff at Lord's then joined and in 1981 made his debut for Middlesex.
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