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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Aaron Neville Cohen
| birth_date = 11 September 1913
| birth_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1987|10|4|1913|9|11}}
| death_place = [[Oxford]], [[Oxfordshire]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Leg break]]
| role =
| club1 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year1 = 1934
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 27
| bat avg1 = 27.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 15[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 453
| wickets1 = 4
| bowl avg1 = 67.25
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 2/79
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| date = 29 May
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11213.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Aaron Neville Cohen''' (11 September 1913 – 4 October 1987) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and colonial official.

Cohen was born in [[British India]] at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in September 1913. He was educated in England at [[Cheltenham College]], before going up to [[Lincoln College, Oxford]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The Colonial Office List |date=1951 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |pages=501 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vqxwQv8P3wC |language=en}}</ref> While studying at Oxford, he made three appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] against [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]], a combined [[Minor Counties cricket team]] and [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]], all played at [[University Parks#Cricket ground|Oxford]] in 1934.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28617/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Neville Cohen |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-05-29 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 27 runs in his three matches, with a high score of 15 [[not out]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28617/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Neville Cohen |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-05-29 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his [[leg break]] bowling, he took 4 wickets at an [[bowling average|average]] of 67.25 and with best figures of 2 for 79.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28617/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Neville Cohen |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2020-05-29 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

After graduating from Oxford, he joined the British Colonial Civil Service in [[British West Africa]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He was commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] during the [[Second World War]] in the [[African Colonial Forces]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35294|date=30 September 1941|page=5715|supp=y}}</ref> Cohen died at [[Oxford]] in October 1987.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=11213}}

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[[Category:1913 births]]
[[Category:1987 deaths]]
[[Category:Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Oxford University cricketers]]
[[Category:People educated at Cheltenham College]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Kolkata]]
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]
[[Category:20th-century English civil servants]]

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