Robert Cooke
Personal information
Born(1900-05-25)25 May 1900
Selly Oak, Birmingham, England
Died14 January 1957(1957-01-14) (aged 56)
Bournbrook, Birmingham, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1925–1926Warwickshire
First-class debut16 May 1925  v Somerset
Last First-class14 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

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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

Cooke died at age 56 on 14 January 1957 in Bournbrook, Birmingham.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Robert Cooke". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Scorecard: Kent v Warwickshire". CricketArchive. 4 July 1925. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "First-class bowling against each opponent by Robert Cooke". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
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