Bryan Cosgrave

Bryan Cosgrave (23 March 1903 – 22 November 1992) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Fitzroy.

Bryan Cosgrave

Personal information
Full name	Bryan Cosgrave
Born	(1903-03-23)23 March 1903 Clifton Hill, Victoria
Died	22 November 1992(1992-11-22) (aged 89) Melbourne, Victoria
Batting	Right-handed
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1925/26–1931/32	Victoria
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 4 Runs scored 178 Batting average 29.66 100s/50s 1/0 Top score 100 Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source: CricketArchive, 31 December 2014

In the 1924 VFL season, Cosgrave played five games and kicked four goals for Fitzroy. It was his only season and he turned his attention to cricket. He was a right-handed batsman top order batsman and made 178 from his four first-class matches, with 100 of them coming in an innings against Tasmania at Hobart in 1931–32.^[1]

Cosgrave was also a journalist for The Sporting Globe, contributing VFL match reports from 1934 to 1937.^[2][3][4] In print, his name was occasionally misspelled as Brian Cosgrave.^[5]

His son James played cricket with Victoria briefly in the 1956–57 season.