Colin Cowdrey
Cowdrey won a Heath Harrison Exhibition award and a place at Brasenose College at Oxford University to study geography in the autumn of 1951. He played for the Oxford University Cricket Club in 1952 and 1953 at the start of the season and the rest of the summer for Kent. He made 50 and 57 for the Gentlemen vs the 1953 Australians at Lords. In 1954 he captained Oxford University and was a surprise choice for the MCC tour of Australia, replacing Willie Watson. Len Hutton later told him that his selection was a gamble, but it was thought that his technique would be good on the hard Australian wickets. At 21, Cowdrey was the youngest man in the side and the schoolboy photographs used in the brochures made him appear younger. He had yet to make a century in the County Championship, go on tour or play a Test, though he was made twelfth man for the Fourth Test against Pakistan and fielded for 20 minutes, but was so nervous he could barely watch.
Colin White (cricketer)
Born at Chiswick in April 1937, White later attended Cranleigh School, where he played for the school cricket team. After leaving Cranleigh, he went up to the University of Cambridge. It was there that he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club against Surrey at Fenner's in 1958. In his sixth match of 1958 against the touring New Zealanders, White was hit in the mouth by a delivery from Bob Blair. However, two weeks later he was back playing, making a further nine first-class appearances in 1958. Thereafter, he only appeared sporadically in 1958 and 1959, making seven further appearances. White made a total of 22 first-class appearances for the university, scoring a total of 549 runs at an average of just 14.83. His highest score of 64, one of two half centuries he made, came against Nottinghamshire in 1960. He made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters in 1961. After graduating from Cambridge, he became a banker. White died at Epsom in February 2012.