John Cottam

John Thomas Cottam (5 September 1867 in Sydney, New South Wales – 30 January 1897 in Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1887.

John Cottam

Personal information
Full name	John Thomas Cottam
Born	(1867-09-05)5 September 1867 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	30 January 1897(1897-01-30) (aged 29) Coolgardie, Western Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Legbreak
International information
National side	Australia
Only Test (cap 49)	25 February 1887 v England
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 1 7 Runs scored 4 273 Batting average 2.00 22.75 100s/50s 0/0 0/3 Top score 3 62 Balls bowled 0 Wickets 0 3 Bowling average – 32.66 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling – 2/48 Catches/stumpings 1/0 4/0
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Jack Cottam had played in only one first-class match – for New South Wales against the touring English cricket team, when he scored 29 and 14 not out[1] – before making his Test debut a few days later in the Second Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Cottam made just four runs as Australia lost by 71 runs.[2] Cottam's five other first-class matches came on New South Wales' tour of New Zealand in 1889–90, when he made three fifties including his highest score of 62, the only fifty in the match, when New South Wales beat Wellington.[3][4]

Cottam went to the goldfields at Coolgardie, Western Australia, near Kalgoorlie, where he died of typhoid fever, aged 29, in 1897.[5]