One-Day Performance of the Season – Ian Cockbain
4 November 2020
Gloucestershire’s most capped T20 player Ian Cockbain has been voted as the winner of the John Higson Trophy for best One-Day Performance of the Season after his emphatic display against Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston in September.
All Gloucestershire supporters will remember this performance as one of the finest innings in Gloucestershire’s T20 history.
Cockbain smashed his way to 84 runs off only 35 balls, his superb innings included a staggering seven 6’s along with six 4’s.
The Birmingham bowlers had no idea how to bowl to Coey. Ian was striking the ball around the park as Gloucestershire cruised to an emphatic 57 run victory.
Ian surpassed Gloucestershire legend Michael Klinger as Gloucestershire’s all time T20 run scorer, an incredible achievement for the man from Liverpool. Cockbain now sits top of the leaderboard with a grand total of 3,064 runs.
Cockbain smashed an unbelievable 22 sixes in this seasons Blast competition, this was 13 sixes more than second place for Chris Dent. Cockbain would finish fourth on the leaderboard for total runs scored in the 2020 competition with an incredible 399 runs at an average of 44.33.
Ian Cockbain is sponsored by Unitary Engineering Services.
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