LIves in Cricket No 31 - Walter Robins

143 Career Statistics 18.2-3-77-7 Middlesex Hampshire² Lord’s 1938 18.7-0-86-6 Middlesex Surrey¹ The Oval 1939 27.3-4-71-7 Middlesex Cambridge Univ¹ Fenner’s 1946 Notes: Overs were of six balls in all these instances except the 1939 match. At Buenos Aires in 1929/30, the first match was at the Belgrano club ground and the second at the Hurlingham club. R.V.C.Robins Walter’s son Charles played in 60 first-class matches in England between 1953 and 1962, mostly for Middlesex and MCC. A right-hand lower-order batsman, he scored 1,055 runs at 12.71, took 107 wickets at 33.61 as a leg-break and googly bowler, and held 19 catches. His best bowling return was seven for 78 for Mid- dlesex against Cambridge University at Fenner’s in 1954. Sources: www.cricketarchive.com, Wisden Cricketers’Almanack