[1] He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire in August 1919 against HK Foster's XI, taking the wickets of Sidney Freeman and Howard Battersea but being dismissed for nought in his only innings.
[1] He scored 412 runs and hit two fifties that season,[6] while in August he took his first wicket for six years when he had Leicestershire's George Geary caught by Peter Jackson.
After that, Coventry played only four more first-class games, with no more half-centuries and only one more wicket, which was to prove his last, although the victim was another big name in Bob Wyatt.
Another uncle, Henry Coventry, played two first-class games for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1888.
His grandfather, the 9th Earl of Coventry, played for teams including MCC and Worcestershire, but never appeared at first-class level.