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Officers XI", when he made 67 not out. There were further matches for Warwickshire in 1920 and 1921, when he occasionally captained the county side; in the match against
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Warwickshire in the 1919 season and, although the county had one of its worst-ever seasons, finishing bottom of the County Championship, Cowan had
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Warwickshire by residence; he also played club cricket for Leamington Cricket Club. He played first-class cricket for the first time in a single match in 1909, appeared in five more games in 1910 and then played six times in Warwickshire's unexpected
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225:"Naval and Military Intelligence: The Britannia".
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