Andrew Corran

{{Short description|English cricketer and schoolmaster (1936–2024)}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Andrew Corran

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Andrew John Corran

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1936|11|25}}

| birth_place = Norwich, Norfolk, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|10|27|1936|11|25}}

| death_place =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| club1 = Norfolk

| year1 = {{nowrap|1955–1960}}

| club2 = Oxford University Cricket Club

| year2 = 1958–1960

| club3 = Nottinghamshire

| year3 = 1961–1965

| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 132

| runs1 = 2,476

| bat avg1 = 16.28

| 100s/50s1 = 0/4

| top score1 = 75

| deliveries1 = 23,883

| wickets1 = 410

| bowl avg1 = 25.74

| fivefor1 = 21

| tenfor1 = 1

| best bowling1 = 7/45

| catches/stumpings1= 77/–

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 3

| runs2 = 27

| bat avg2 = 13.50

| 100s/50s2 = 0/0

| top score2 = 15

| deliveries2 = 234

| wickets2 = 6

| bowl avg2 = 17.50

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 4/35

| catches/stumpings2= 1/–

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28746/28746.html CricketArchive

| date = 5 August

| year = 2020

}}

Andrew John Corran (25 November 1936 – 27 October 2024) was an English first-class cricketer and schoolmaster.

After starting his career at Gresham's School, Holt (where he was also a good hockey player), at Trinity College, Oxford (where he was a cricket blue in all three of his seasons), and in Minor Counties cricket for Norfolk, Corran moved to Nottinghamshire, for whom he played between 1961 and 1965. He was the club's captain in the 1962 season, when he made 620 runs and took 64 wickets in the County Championship, but Nottinghamshire finished 15th.Wisden 1963, pp. 556–558. In the 1965 County Championship he took 109 wickets at an average of 20.30.Wisden 1966, p. 519.

In the 1960 Oxford and Cambridge match, Corran took 12 wickets for 116 runs.{{cite web |title=Oxford University v Cambridge University 1960 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1960/ENG_LOCAL/UNIV/OX-UNIV_CAMB-UNIV_UNIV_06-08JUL1960.html |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=6 June 2019}} Earlier in the season he had taken 7 for 45, bowling unchanged through the innings, to dismiss Lancashire for 103.{{cite web |title=Oxford University v Lancashire 1960 |url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/24/24063.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=14 June 2019}} Also in 1960, he played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's.

A schoolmaster, Corran took a job in Australia in late 1965 and ended his first-class cricket career. From 1968 until his retirement he taught mathematics and cricket at Cranleigh School in Surrey.{{cite web |title=Andrew Corran |url=https://www.trentbridge.co.uk/trentbridge/history/players/andrew-corran.html |website=Notts CCC |accessdate=17 November 2020}}

Corran and his wife Gay, an artist, had five children. He died on 27 October 2024, at the age of 87.{{cite news |title=Andrew Corran |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-november-1-2024-hzxhcfx80 |access-date=1 November 2024 |publisher=The Times |date=1 November 2024}}