Dean Cosker was the man who claimed the final wicket of the Welsh county’s successful Championship campaign on a never-to-be-forgotten Saturday evening at Taunton in 1997, besides being the first Glamorgan bowler to take 100 wickets in Twenty20 cricket.

Within months of completing his A-levels at  Millfield School in 1996, Dean Cosker was making his Glamorgan debut against Lancashire at Cardiff. Born in Dorset of Welsh parents, the left arm spinner enjoyed a successful tour to Pakistan with England Under 19 during 1996/97 and was included in The Rest XI to play England A in the traditional curtain-raiser for the 1997 season.

It proved to be a momentous summer for Dean as well as Glamorgan as firstly in the Nat West quarter-final against Yorkshire at Cardiff, he returned figures of 12-3-26-3, before sharing an unbeaten tenth wicket partnership of 28 with Waqar Younis to see Glamorgan to a semi-final place.  Later in the summer it was Dean who took the final wicket of the 1997 Championship campaign, removing Somerset`s Ben Trott at Taunton shortly before Glamorgan became County Champions.

This was the highlight of a career which also saw Dean appear for Glamorgan at T20 Finals Day during 2004, besides winning one-day competitions during 2002 and 2004, being selected for England A on further overseas tours besides appearing as 12th man in the 2015 Ashes Test Match at Cardiff between England and Australia.

His total tally of wickets in 1^st XI cricket stands at 899 in all formats, and with 553 first-class wickets, 246 in List A, plus 100 in Twenty20 cricket, he retired as the one and, so far, only bowler to have over a hundred wickets in all formats of the game for the Welsh county. His probing bowling in both Championship and one-day cricket led to Dean winning his Glamorgan cap in 2000, and then in 2010 being awarded a Benefit Year.

Besides these skills with the ball, he was an outstanding fielder at backward point where his razor-sharp reflexes and swift hand-eye co-ordination resulted in a number of outstanding catches as well as nimble stops with Dean being the heartbeat of the Glamorgan fielding unit. After retiring, Dean has been appointed as a Cricket Liaison Officer (Match Referee) by the ECB.

COSKER, Dean Andrew          

Born – Weymouth, 7^th January 1978.

Best performances for Glamorgan:

In first-class cricket – 69 v Kent at Canterbury, 2015; 6/91 v Essex at SWALEC Stadium, 2009.

In List A cricket – 50* v Northamptonshire at Northampton, 2009; 5/54 v Essex at Chelmsford, 2003.

In T20 cricket – 21* v Somerset at Taunton, 2011; 4/25 v Surrey at The SSE SWALEC, 2015.

	M	I	NO	RUNS	AV	100	50	CT	ST
First-class	235	315	90	8336	14.82	–	2	143	–
List A	242	125	53	796	11.06	–	1	87	–
T20	128	37	26	173	15.73	–	–	38	–

	Balls	M	R	W	AV	5wI	10wM
First-class	42521	1604	20485	553	37.04	11	1
List A	10158	52	8251	246	33.54	1	–
T20	2373	1	3032	101	30.02	–	–