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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Harold Cox
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Harold Ranyard Cox
| birth_date = 7 November 1884
| birth_place = [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|3|26|1884|11|7|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1922/23
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 33
| bat avg1 = 33.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 20[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 216
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 42.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 2/77
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 12 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/harold-cox-27744 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Harold Ranyard Cox''' (7 November 1884 – 26 March 1962) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er, banker, and an officer in both the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]].

The son of S. F. Cox, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Amritsar]] in November 1884. He was educated in England at [[Sedbergh School]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=Sedbergh School Register, 1546-1909|date=1909|publisher=Richard Jackson|page=508|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdra6WzfT3AC|language=en}}</ref> Following the completion of his education, Cox was commissioned into the [[Worcestershire Regiment]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in April 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27424|date=11 April 1902|page=2423}}</ref> Prior to the [[First World War]], he moved to India to become a banker with the [[Punjab Banking Company]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Cox later served in the [[First World War]] with the [[British Indian Army]] as a second lieutenant, being granted his commission in October 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29463|date=4 February 1916|page=1378}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in October 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30199|date=24 July 1917|page=7496}}</ref> Cox was attached to the [[151st Sikh Infantry|151st Punjabi Rifles]] during the war, holding the acting rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] for part of the war.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30138|date=19 June 1917|page=6057}}</ref> Following the war, Cox made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in the 1922–23 [[Bombay Quadrangular]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13230/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Harold Cox|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he ended the Europeans first innings [[not out]] on 20, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 13 runs by [[Bomanji Kalapesi]]. As a [[bowling (cricket)|bowler]], he took two wickets in the Parsees first innings, dismissing [[S. N. Gandhi]] and [[Sorabji Colah]] for the cost of 77 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10641.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Quadrangular Tournament 1922/23|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Cox died in England at [[Cheltenham]] in March 1962.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19620328/811/0022|title=Deaths|work=[[The Scotsman]]|location=[[Edinburgh]]|page=11|date=28 March 1962|access-date=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27744}}
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[[Category:1884 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Amritsar]]
[[Category:People educated at Sedbergh School]]
[[Category:Worcestershire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:English bankers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Amritsar]]
[[Category:20th-century British Army personnel]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]

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