Walter Robins

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Walter Robins

Personal information

Batting style

Right-handed batsman (RHB)

Bowling style

Leg break

International information

National side

English

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	19	379
Runs scored	612	13884
Batting average	26.60	26.39
100s/50s	1/4	11/73
Top score	108	140
Balls bowled	3318	43215
Wickets	64	969
Bowling average	27.46	23.30
5 wickets in innings	1	54
10 wickets in match	0	4
Best bowling	6/32	8/69
Catches/stumpings	12/0	217/0

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Robert Walter Vivian Robins (3 June 1906 - 12 December 1968) was an English cricketer and footballer.

Walter Robins was born in Stafford and was educated at Highgate School and Cambridge University. He played football for Nottingham Forest and first-class cricket for Middlesex, Cambridge University and England. He was a useful right-handed batsman and a capable leg-break bowler, who played in 258 first-class matches for the county, taking 669 wickets at an average of 22.28, with a personal best of 8/69. He was an adventurous captain who was prepared to take risks, in order to gain a positive result.^[1] He captained Middlesex County Cricket Club during three spells (1935–1938, 1946–1947 and 1950) and led them to the County Championship in 1947. He stood down from the captaincy in 1948 due to his business interests and may have contemplated retirement from cricket but he remained an occasional first-class player until 1958.

Robins was named one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1930.

He took 217 first class catches, and 12 in Test matches, yet he infamously dropped Don Bradman during the third Test of England's 1936/37 Ashes tour. Captain Gubby Allen placed Robins at square leg with instructions to run to long leg as soon as the fast bowler sent down a bouncer. Bradman duly hooked and Robins, running before the ball was struck, got under the catch only to fumble and drop it. He apologised only for Allen to reply "Don't give it a thought Walter, you've probably cost us the Ashes, but don't give it a thought." Bradman went on to make 270, Australia won the match by 365 runs and took the series 3:2.

Robins captained England for the three Test series at home to New Zealand in 1937, winning it 1-0. He later became Chairman of the England Test Selectors. He died in Marylebone, following a long illness, aged 62. His son Charles Robins was became a first-class cricketer, as did his son-in-law, Kenneth Came who was also a career officer in the British Army.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by G.O.B.Allen	English national cricket captain 1937	Succeeded by W.R.Hammond
Preceded by H.J.Enthoven and N.E.Haig	Middlesex cricket captain 1935–1938	Succeeded by I.A.R.Peebles
Preceded by I.A.R.Peebles	Middlesex cricket captain 1946–1947	Succeeded by F.G.Mann
Preceded by F.G.Mann	Middlesex cricket captain 1950	Succeeded by D.C.S.Compton and W.J.Edrich

v t e England Test cricket captains

1876/77: Lillywhite 1878/79–1884: Harris 1881/82: Shaw 1882; 1884: Hornby 1882/83: Bligh 1884/85–1886/87: Shrewsbury 1886; 1888: Steel 1887/88–1891/92: Read 1888–1896; 1899: Grace 1888/89: C. Smith 1888/89: Bowden 1893; 1894/95–1897/98: Stoddart 1895/96: O'Brien 1895/96–1898/99: Hawke 1897/98; 1899–1909: MacLaren 1903/04–1905/06: Warner 1905: Jackson 1907: Foster 1907/08; 1909/10: Fane 1907/08: Jones 1909/10: Leveson Gower 1911/12–1920/21; 1921; 1924: Douglas 1912: Fry 1921: Tennyson 1922/23: F. Mann 1924–1924/25: A. Gilligan 1926; 1929: A. Carr 1926; 1928–1930/31: Chapman 1927/28: Stanyforth 1927/28: Stevens 1928/29; 1929: White 1929/30: H. Gilligan 1929/30: Calthorpe 1930; 1932/33; 1933; 1934–1935: Wyatt 1931–1933/34: Jardine 1934: Walters 1936–1947/48: Allen 1937: Robins 1938–1946/47: Hammond 1946/47; 1947–1950: Yardley 1947/48: Cranston 1948/49–1949: G. Mann 1949; 1950; 1950/51–1951: Brown 1951/52: Howard 1951/52: D. Carr 1952–1954/55: Hutton 1954: Sheppard 1955–1961: May 1959; 1959/60; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1966–1968/69: M. Cowdrey 1961/62–1964: Dexter 1963/64–1965/66; 1966: M. Smith 1966; 1967: Close 1968: Graveney 1969–1973: Illingworth 1972/73: Lewis 1973/74–1974/75; 1975: Denness 1974/75: Edrich 1975–1976/77: Greig 1977–1981: Brearley 1977/78; 1977/78: Boycott 1980–1980/81; 1981: Botham 1981/82: Fletcher 1982–1983/84; 1983/84: Willis 1982; 1983/84–1985/86; 1986; 1989: Gower 1986–1987/88; 1988: Gatting 1988: Emburey 1988: C. Cowdrey 1988; 1988–1993: Gooch 1989/90; 1990/91: Lamb 1992/93; 1992/93–1998/99; 2000; 2001: Stewart 1993; 1993/94–1997/98; 2001: Atherton 1999–2003: Hussain 1999: Butcher 2003–2008: Vaughan 2004; 2005/06: Trescothick 2006–2006/07: Flintoff 2006; 2007; 2008/09–2012: Strauss 2008–2008/09: Pietersen 2010; 2012–: Cook

Italics denote deputised captaincy

Persondata
Name	Robins, Walter
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer
Date of birth	3 June 1906
Place of birth
Date of death	12 December 1968
Place of death

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