Robert Cooke (cricketer)

Not to be confused with Bob Cooke (cricketer).

Robert Cooke (25 May 1900 – 14 January 1957) was an English first-class cricketer who played in 15 matches for Warwickshire from 1925 to 1926.

Robert Cooke

Personal information
Born	(1900-05-25)25 May 1900 Selly Oak, Birmingham, England
Died	14 January 1957(1957-01-14) (aged 56) Bournbrook, Birmingham, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1925–1926	Warwickshire
First-class debut	16 May 1925  v Somerset
Last First-class	14 July 1926  v Glamorgan
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 15 Runs scored 66 Batting average 3.88 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 14 Balls bowled 1,248 Wickets 16 Bowling average 31.68 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 5/22 Catches/stumpings 6/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 26 December 2022

Born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, Cooke was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman. In his second first-class match, the game against Kent at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells, in July 1925, he finished off the Kent first innings with a hat-trick of three wickets in three balls, in fact taking four wickets in five balls; later in the same match, he was himself part of a hat-trick taken by the Kent bowler Charlie Wright which finished off the Warwickshire second innings. Cooke's figures of five wickets for 22 runs in Kent's first innings were by some distance the best of his career, and in no other innings in a brief first-class career did he take more than two wickets.

Cooke died at age 56 on 14 January 1957 in Bournbrook, Birmingham.

External links

• Robert Cooke at ESPNcricinfo