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English
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England
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ENG
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Jack Robertson
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Right-hand bat
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Right-arm offbreak
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11
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881
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4636
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2/6
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133
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138
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2
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2900
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-
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-
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2/17
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6/-
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509
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31914
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3750
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67/161
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331
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5685
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73
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3473
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4/37
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352/-
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16 August
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1947
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6 February
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1952
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, born
February 22 ,
1917 and died
October 12 ,
1996 , was a
Cricketer who played for
Middlesex and
England .
A right-handed opening batsman of consistency and class, Jack Robertson was a heavy scorer in county cricket who averaged 46 runs per innings in
Tests . Yet he played only 11 times for England, was dropped after making a century in
1949 , and was never selected to face
Australia .
It was Robertson's misfortune to be overshadowed by others both in his international and in his county cricket career. For the first half dozen years of cricket after the
Second World War , England's preferred opening partnership was the trans-Pennine combination of
Leonard Hutton and
Cyril Washbrook ; Robertson's selection for the first Test of 1949 against
New Zealand was the result of injury to Washbrook and despite scoring 121 and sharing a partnership of 143 with Hutton, he lost his place.
For Middlesex, Robertson often seemed similarly overshadowed by the dynamic batting of , he made an undefeated 331 in a day against
Worcestershire at
Worcester , an innings that remains the highest scored in
First-class Cricket by a Middlesex batsman and the highest first-class innings by any batsman at
New Road .
Robertson passed 1,000 runs in a season every year from
1946 until
1958 but, failing to find any form in
1959 , he retired and became county coach.
He was a
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year in
1948 .
Wisden Cricketer's Almanack, passim
