Ollie Robinson

Ollie Robinson
Personal information
Full name Oliver Edward Robinson
Born (1993-12-01) 1 December 1993
Margate, Kent, England
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2013–2014 Yorkshire
2014 Hampshire
2015–present Sussex
FC debut 26 April 2015 Sussex v Durham
LA debut 11 August 2013 Yorkshire v Leicestershire
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20
Matches 11 7 19
Runs scored 282 53 29
Batting average 20.14 17.66 4.83
100s/50s 1/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 110 30 10
Balls bowled 1921 216 332
Wickets 46 3 20
Bowling average 24.71 75.00 24.95
5 wickets in innings 1 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 6/33 2/61 3/16
Catches/stumpings 3/– 5/– 9/–
Source: CricketArchive, 3 January 2016

Oliver "Ollie" Edward Robinson (born 1 December 1993) is an English cricketer who plays for Sussex County Cricket Club. He is a right-arm medium pace bowler, and a right-handed batsman. Robinson is also the step-son of Paul Farbrace.[1]

Career

Robinson began his career playing for Kent Second XI; after one match of the 2013 season, he left Kent for Leicestershire, before playing for Yorkshire Second XI. He finished the 2013 season with 59 wickets and 1282 runs in Second XI cricket, and also made his first-team List A debut for Yorkshire in July 2013 against Leicestershire.[2] In October 2013, Robinson signed a professional contract with Yorkshire.[2]

In July 2014, Robinson, was sacked by Yorkshire for "unprofessional actions"; in the 2014 season, he had made 7 T20 Blast appearances for Yorkshire, taking 6 wickets.[3] Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie said of the situation that "When a player consistently displays behaviour that isn’t professional, there has to be a point in time when you say ‘look, this isn’t really working, you’re obviously not that bothered about playing for the club’. That point came, and it was tough." and that "He’s got to learn about his game and about being a professional sportsman. I think there will be a future for him in the professional game, but I think he needs to learn a lot, and I think he can do it."[4] Later in the 2014 season, Robinson made 1 List A appearance for Hampshire.[5][6]

In April 2015, Sussex signed Robinson on a short-term deal, after an injury crisis with bowlers Tymal Mills, James Anyon and Lewis Hatchett all unavailable.[7][8] Robinson had played a Second XI match for Sussex,[7] and was named in the squad for a County Championship match the next day against Durham, where he made his first-class debut.[8][9] In the match, Robinson batted at number 9, and scored a century in a Sussex record-breaking tenth-wicket partnership with Matt Hobden of 164.[10] In doing so, he became the first Sussex player in 95 years to score a century on a County Championship debut.[lower-alpha 1][10] Robinson took his first five-wicket haul, and as of January 2016 his best bowling figures, in May 2015 against Warwickshire.[11] In the 2015 season, Robinson took 46 Championship wickets at an average of 24.71, and was nominated for the LV= Breakthrough Player Award (which was won by Somerset's Tom Abell,[12] and won the Sussex Young Player of the Year award.[13] In October 2015, Robinson signed a new three-year contract with Sussex.[13]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ollie Rayner scored a century on debut in a tour match against Sri Lanka in 2006.

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