Frederick Cook (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Cook (cricketer)

South African cricketer

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1870

Place of Birth: Java, Indonesia

Date of Death: 30-Nov-1915

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Frederick James Cook (31 January 1870, Java, Dutch East Indies – 30 November 1915, Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1896. Cook was a right-handed batsman who played for Eastern Province infrequently over a 12-season period between 1893 and 1894 and 1904–05.
He made his highest score in his first-ever first-class cricket innings, when he captained Eastern Province and scored 59 and 28.In 1895–96, he played in the first Test match between South Africa and the MCC side captained by Lord Hawke.
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 George Lohmann taking eight wickets for seven runs.
In this second innings, Cook was the first dismissal in a Lohmann hat-trick which finished the match.At the outbreak of World War I he was commissioned in the Border Regiment and quickly promoted to captain.
He went to Gallipoli, where he was attached to the 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) of the Royal Scots.
He was killed in action on 30 November 1915.