Frederick James Cook (31 January 1870 – 30 November 1915) was a South African

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er who played in one

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in 1896. Cook was a right-handed batsman who played for Eastern Province from the 1893–94 season to 1904–05. He made his highest score in his first-ever

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innings, when he captained Eastern Province and scored 59 and 28. In 1895–96, he played in the first Test match between

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and the MCC side captained by

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. Batting at number nine, he made 7 out of a total of 93 in the first innings and failed to score in the second innings, when South Africa were bowled out for 30, with

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taking eight wickets for seven runs. In this second innings, Cook was the first dismissal in a Lohmann

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which finished the match. At the outbreak of

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he was commissioned in the

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and quickly promoted to

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. He went to Gallipoli, where he was attached to the 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) of the

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. He was killed in action on 30 November 1915.

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, ''Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War'', Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, 2015. p. 170.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Frederick 1870 births 1915 deaths British military personnel killed in World War I South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Eastern Province cricketers People from Java British Army personnel of World War I Border Regiment officers Royal Scots officers Emigrants from the Dutch East Indies Immigrants to the Cape Colony

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