| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Vickers Bardsley | |||
| Born | 28 June 1890 Prestwich, England |
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| Died | 26 July 1952 (aged 62) Pulborough, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Leg-break | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1910–1913 | Oxford University | |||
| 1910–1913 | Lancashire | |||
| 1920 | Lancashire | |||
| 1920–1922 | Free Foresters | |||
| First-class debut | 30 May 1910 Oxford University v Worcestershire | |||
| Last First-class | 10 June 1922 Free Foresters v Cambridge University | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 31 | |||
| Runs scored | 964 | |||
| Batting average | 18.53 | |||
| 100s/50s | 0/5 | |||
| Top score | 72 | |||
| Balls bowled | 579 | |||
| Wickets | 12 | |||
| Bowling average | 28.66 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | 3–15 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 19/– | |||
| Source: CricketArchive, 30 November 2009 | ||||
Robert Vickers Bardsley CMG OBE (28 June 1890 – 26 July 1952) was an English cricketer who played a total of 31 first-class matches for Oxford University Lancashire County Cricket Club and Free Foresters between 1910 and 1922.
Educated at Merton College, Oxford,[1] Bardsley went on to be Private Secretary to the Governor-General of Sudan[2] in the mid 1920s and then Governor of the Blue Nile Province[3] from 1928 to 1932.[4]