Russell Cobb

{{short description|English cricketer (born 1961)}}{{Infobox person

| name = Russell Alan Cobb

| birth_date = 18 May 1961

| nationality = English

| occupation = cricketer

}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

Russell Alan Cobb (born 18 May 1961) is an English former cricketer who played more than one-hundred and fifty matches for Leicestershire and Northern Transvaal across a career than ran from 1980 until 1989. A right-handed batsman, he scored over 4,000 runs across the first-class and List A formats, though he never made a century. He also bowled left-arm medium pace and slow left-arm spin bowling, though only very occasionally. His son, Josh Cobb, also played for Leicestershire.{{cite web | url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10938.html | title=Player Profile: Russell Cobb | publisher=ESPN CricInfo | accessdate=8 January 2014}}