Ah, Tibby the original tearaway fast bowler, well before we had the Brett Lees and Mitch Johnsons of the world. If you faced Tibby Cotter in the early 1900s, good luck keeping your wicket standing!

Connolly has played just four matches for Western Australia - the same as Bill Watson - and only current Test captain Cummins and Tibby Cotter have played fewer before their debut.

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It is also the second-highest for Australia, behind the unbeaten 56-run stand between Tibby Cotter and Gerry Hazlitt for the ninth wicket in 1907 at Sydney in pursuit of a 274-run target. 796 ...

For yes, Cotter was the Dennis Lillee of his day. In a 1908 profile written in the Sydney Mail, it was written: “Tibby Cotter is the match-winner, stump-breaker, and sensation-provider of Australia.

Tibby Cotter was a short (5'8") fast bowler who generated extreme pace from powerful chest and shoulders and on at least 20 occasions shattered the stumps or bails so quick was he.

Among them were VFL and rugby players, well known Olympians like swimmer Cecil Healey and cricket stars like Tibby Cotter, cricket’s first genuine fast bowler and 12th Australian Light Horse ...

On a chilly windy Saturday afternoon in October 1916, some of our greatest Australian rules football players took to a paddock in Kensington in London’s west for a game unlike any other.