LIves in Cricket No 31 - Walter Robins

142 Career Statistics Totals (6-b) 6921.1 1003) (8-b) 210.2 12) 22580 969 8-69 23.30 54 4 Note: Overs were of six balls throughout Robins’ first-class career, except in Australia in 1936/37 and in England in 1939 when they were of eight balls. He took his wickets at the rate of one per 44.59 balls and conceded runs at a rate equivalent to 3.13 runs per six-ball over. Of his 969 wickets, 395 (41%) were caught; 249 (26%) were bowled; 173 (18%) were lbw; 143 (15%, an unusually high proportion) were stumped and nine (1%) were hit wicket. He took 32 catches off his own bowling. He dismissed five batsmen eight times or more; these were A.P.Freeman and H.S.Squires, nine times; F.S.Lee, A.F.Wensley H.W.Parks, eight times. For Middlesex he took 669 wickets at 22.28, including 40 five-wicket returns. First-Class Cricket: Centuries (11) Score For Opponent Venue Season 103 Cambridge Univ¹ MCC Lord’s 1928 101* Cambridge Univ² Oxford Univ Lord’s 1928 106 Middlesex¹ Somerset Taunton 1929 140 Middlesex² Cambridge Univ Fenner’s 1930 106 MCC¹ Kent Lord’s 1933 108 England¹ South Africa Old Trafford 1935 137 Middlesex¹ Sussex Lord’s 1938 129 Middlesex¹ Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge 1946 102 Middlesex¹ Essex Lord’s 1946 116 MCC¹ Yorkshire Scarborough 1946 101 Middlesex¹ Kent Dover 1948 Notes: The index figures ¹ and ² in this and the following table indicate the innings in which the feat was achieved. First-Class Cricket: Six wickets or more in an innings (25) Analysis For Opponent Venue Season 21.4-0-61-6 Cambridge Univ MCC² Lord’s 1928 43-6-126-6 Middlesex Warwickshire¹ Lord’s 1928 15.4-5-29-6 Middlesex Leicestershire¹ Lord’s 1929 32-6-69-8 Middlesex Gloucestershire² Lord’s 1929 19.1-2-53-6 Middlesex Nottinghamshire² Lord’s 1929 38-7-129-6 Middlesex Leicestershire¹ Leicester (AR) 1929 17.1-5-43-6 Middlesex Somerset² Taunton 1929 27.3-3-89-6 The Rest Nottinghamshire² The Oval 1929 20.3-5-40-6 Sir Julien Cahn’s XI Argentina¹ Buenos Aires 1929/30 25-2-65-6 Sir Julien Cahn’s XI Argentina² Buenos Aires 1929/30 25.1-0-73-6 Middlesex Derbyshire¹ Lord’s 1930 40-8-101-6 Middlesex Somerset¹ Lord’s 1930 17.2-1-45-6 Middlesex Worcestershire² Lord’s 1932 20.5-2-45-6 Middlesex Kent¹ Lord’s 1932 18.2-4-36-7 Middlesex Hampshire² Lord’s 1933 11.5-1-32-6 England West Indies¹ Lord’s 1933 20-2-58-6 Middlesex Warwickshire¹ Lord’s 1935 16-4-39-6 Middlesex Essex² Lord’s 1935 35-8-107-6 Middlesex Nottinghamshire¹ Trent Bridge 1935 33.4-4-105-8 England XI Indians¹ Folkestone 1936 26.4-8-40-6 Middlesex Lancashire¹ Old Trafford 1937 17.4-3-69-6 Middlesex Sussex¹ Lord’s 1938