As they say on cricinfo: "As a member of English cricket's most blue-blooded family, Chris Cowdrey was destined to be noticed from the moment he committed himself to follow in his father's flannels. He might, however, have preferred a somewhat lower profile, for he will always be remembered as the most left-field of England's four Test captains of the crazy summer of 1988. Three years had elapsed since his solitary Test tour to India in 1984-85 and yet, in the wisdom of the chief of selectors (and Cowdrey's godfather) Peter May, he was the obvious choice to lead the side in the fourth Test at Headingley, He mustered five runs in two innings as West Indies romped to a ten-wicket victory, and that was the end of that."