George Robinson (Australian cricketer)
 Robinson in 1948 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | George David Robinson | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 January 1921 Boulder, Western Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 March 1999 (aged 78) Kew, Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Alexander Robinson (brother) Ray Robinson (cousin) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1945-46 to 1947-48 | Western Australia | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 22 March 2017 | |||||||||||||||
George David Robinson (21 January 1921 – 12 March 1999) was an Australian doctor and first-class cricketer who played for Western Australia between 1945 and 1948.
Life and career
[edit]Robinson was born in Boulder, Western Australia. His father Alexander had played one match of first-class cricket for Western Australia in 1907–08, and George's younger brother, also born in Boulder, and also named Alexander, played two matches for Western Australia in 1952–53.[1] George Robinson graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1944, and returned to Western Australia to practise.
A batsman who usually batted at number three, Robinson played several matches for Western Australia in 1945-46 and 1946–47. He was the vice-captain of Western Australia's inaugural Sheffield Shield team in 1947–48.[2] In the first match of the season he scored 90, adding 159 for the second wicket with the captain, Keith Carmody, in an innings victory over South Australia.[3] In the next match, against Victoria, he scored 134, this time adding 190 for the second wicket with Allan Edwards, and 126 for the third wicket with David Watt. Western Australia won the match on the first innings.[4] Western Australia won the Shield, Robinson contributing 326 runs at an average of 46.57, second only to Carmody in the team's averages and aggregates.[5]
He maintained his medical practice while playing cricket, taking morning and evening surgery on match days. He played no further first-class cricket after the 1947–48 season, and later returned to Melbourne, where he was director of anaesthesia at Western General Hospital in Footscray for 25 years.[2]
The cricket writer Ray Robinson was his cousin.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "George Robinson". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ a b Wisden 2000, p. 1559.
- ^ "Western Australia v South Australia 1947-48". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ "Western Australia v Victoria 1947-48". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ Wisden 1949, p. 800.
- ^ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 452–53.
External links
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Media related to George Robinson (Australian cricketer) at Wikimedia Commons- George Robinson at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- George Robinson at ESPNcricinfo
- 1921 births
- 1999 deaths
- Australian cricketers
- Western Australia cricketers
- 20th-century Australian medical doctors
- Melbourne Medical School alumni
- Sportspeople from Boulder, Western Australia
- Australian Army personnel of World War II
- Australian Army soldiers
- Military personnel from Western Australia
- Cricketers from Western Australia
- Sportsmen from Western Australia
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen