Career
Cooper had played for Lancashire"s Second XI as a teenager before the war, but his first-class debut came for that county against Oxford University in May 1946. He made 6 and 20 not out. Later that season he made his County Championship bow against Leicestershire, playing three Championship games in total, all in July.
However, he left the county for Worcestershire at the end of the season.
1948 also saw Cooper selected for West of England against East of England, the last such first-class match. He made 53 and 16, but the West were beaten by 223 runs.
In the 1949 and 1950 seasons, Cooper played only intermittently for the Worcestershire first team, spending a considerable amount of time turning out for the Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship. He made one first-class half-century in each season, but he was dismissed for single-figure scores in 13 of his 20 innings, and after the 1950 season his time in first-class cricket was brought to an education
Cooper was born in Bacup, Lancashire.
He died in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire at the age of 65.
