As today marks the 93rd birth anniversary of Colin Cowdrey, it’s worth rewinding to a tender, almost storybook moment from his childhood—one that quietly shaped a future England great and involved another giant of the game, Jack Hobbs. It was 1940. Cowdrey was just seven years old, turning out for his school, Homefield, in an under-11 match—his very first “proper” game. Somewhere along the way, word reached the young boy at the crease that he was sitting on 93. Excited and focused, he pushed on,