Phillip Anthony Cottey (born 2 June 1966) is a Welsh former cricketer who played for Glamorgan, Sussex and Eastern Transvaal in a first-class career lasting 18 years.
Having played Second XI cricket in 1985, Cottey made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against Oxford University in 1986, opening the batting with Duncan Pauline he scored 6.
[6] He played just four matches the following season but had a breakthrough year in 1990 as he passed 1,000 runs for the first time in his career, included in this aggregate were three centuries.
[5] Playing against Leicestershire at Swansea he scored 203 off 333 balls and aided a Glamorgan recovery from 127/6 with a 211 run seventh wicket partnership with Ottis Gibson.
[10] Cottey was a regular member of the Glamorgan team that won the County Championship in 1997,[11] although his personal form was modest, scoring 475 runs at 27.94.
In mid-season he enjoyed a sequence of seven consecutive fifties and only narrowly failed to score four successive hundreds.
Cottey was released by Sussex at the end of the 2004 season, his first team appearances had been limited by the arrival of Ian Ward.
[3] In 2008, he published an autobiography entitled There's Only 2 Tony Cotteys, named after crowd chants he received during an innings which took Glamorgan to the Sunday League title in 1993.