Robert Arthur Lawson (born 14 September 1974) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played for Otago between the 1992–93 and 2003–04 seasons.[1]
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Full name | Robert Arthur Lawson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | 14 September 1974|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992/93–2003/04 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 3 December 1992 Otago v Central Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 7 March 2004 Otago v Sri Lanka A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 3 January 1993 Otago v Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 30 January 2004 Otago v Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 10 November 2023 |
Lawson was born at Dunedin in Otago in 1974[2] and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city.[3][4] A right-handed batsman who occasionally bowled off breaks, he played more than 160 top-level matches, almost all of them for Otago.[1]
After playing age-group cricket for Otago in 1991–92, Lawson made his senior representative debut in a Plunket Shield match against Central Districts at Masterton in December 1992. He played for the New Zealand national under-19 cricket team in early 1993, for a New Zealand Emerging Players side during the following season and went on to play for the New Zealand Academy and for New Zealand A but was never capped internationally.[1] He captained Otago and scored over 5,500 top-class runs during his career.[1][4] He later served in the board of the Otago Cricket Association for nine years and was made a life member of the association in 2023.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Robbie Lawson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 April 2016. (subscription required)
- ^ Robbie Lawson, CricInfo. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 79. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
- ^ a b Pratley G (2018) Old Boys' Annual Cricket Fixture, Otago Boys' High School, 21 March 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ^ Two life memebrships awarded at 147th Otago Cricket Annual general Meeting, Otago Cricket Association, 26 October 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
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