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Gordon Cooke

Irish cricketer (born 1975)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Gordon Cooke is a former Northern Irish cricketer, from Derry. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he played 66 times for the Irish cricket team between 1994 and 2005.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gordon Cooke” is irish cricketer (born 1975). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gordon, Cooke and Irish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gordon, Cooke and Irish is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gordon Cooke” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.