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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Rusi Cooper<br />
| image = <br />
| country = India<br />
| fullname = Rustom Sorabji Cooper<br />
| nickname =<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1922|12|14|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = <br />
| death_place = <br />
| heightft =<br />
| heightinch =<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = <br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]]<br />
| year1 = 1941-42 to 1944-45<br />
| club2 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]<br />
| year2 = 1943-44 to 1944-45<br />
| club3 = [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]<br />
| year3 = 1949 to 1951<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 22<br />
| runs1 = 1205<br />
| bat avg1 = 52.39<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 3/10<br />
| top score1 = 127[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries1 = 138<br />
| wickets1 = 0<br />
| bowl avg1 = –<br />
| fivefor1 = –<br />
| tenfor1 = –<br />
| best bowling1 = –<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/–<br />
| date = 18 April 2017<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/27835.html Cricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''Rustom Sorabji Cooper''' (born 15 December 1922), better known as '''Rusi Cooper''', is an Indian former [[first-class cricket]]er.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Cooper was a right-handed batsman who made his first-class debut in the 1941-42 [[Bombay Quadrangular#Bombay Pentangular|Bombay Pentangular Tournament]], playing for the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Europeans v Parsees 1941-42 |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17335.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref> In the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons he represented [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=First-Class Matches played by Rustom Cooper|url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34167/First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref><br />
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Selected to play for the Rest of India against Western India States in February 1944, Cooper went in to bat at number eight and made his maiden first-class century.<ref>{{cite web |title=Indian States v Rest of India 1943-44 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1943-44/IND_LOCAL/OTHERS/IND-STATES_R-O-I_05-08FEB1944.html |website=Cricinfo |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref> He finished the season with 383 runs at an average of 76.60.<ref name=FCBF>{{cite web |title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Rustom Cooper |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34167/f_Batting_by_Season.html |website=CricketArchive |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref> He improved further in 1944-45, scoring 551 runs at an average of 91.83 with two centuries,<ref name=FCBF/> one of them in the Ranji Trophy final against [[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]] to help Bombay win the title.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17470.html| title = Bombay v Holkar 1944-45| publisher = CricketArchive|url-access=subscription | accessdate = 18 April 2017}}</ref><br />
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Cooper moved to England in 1946 to study at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="HC">{{cite web|title=Hornsey Legends: Rusi Cooper|url=http://www.hornseycricketclub.co.uk/hornsey-legends|website=Hornsey Cricket Club|accessdate=18 April 2017}}</ref> He was signed by [[Middlesex CCC|Middlesex]] and played one game in the 1949 County Championship. The following season he got a longer run in the side but struggled to make an impact, averaging just 19.63 for the county. He was a champion batsman for [[Hornsey]] Cricket Club for several seasons, scoring 1,117 in 19 innings in 1953 at an average of 139.62, before returning to India with his English wife to practise as a barrister.<ref name="HC"/> A serious knee injury ended his playing career soon after his return to India.<ref name=MCCC/><br />
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Cooper is the last surviving player from the Pentangular Tournament, which ceased after the 1945-46 season.<ref>{{cite web |title='Russi' Cooper becomes India's oldest living first-class cricketer|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/russi-cooper-becomes-indias-oldest-living-first-class-cricketer/articleshow/76416718.cms |website=The Times of India |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> He is also the longest-lived first-class player in the history of [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]].<ref name=MCCC>{{cite web |title=Rustom 'Russi' Sorabji Cooper becomes Middlesex's oldest first-class cricketer |url=https://www.middlesexccc.com/news/2020/06/russi-cooper-becomes-middlesexs-oldest-first-class-cricketer |website=Middlesex CCC |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cricinfo|id=27835}}<br />
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