Robert Cooke (Warwickshire cricketer)

Robert Cooke (25 May 1900 – 14 January 1957) was an English first-class cricketer who played in 15 matches for Warwickshire in 1925 and 1926.^[1] He was born in Selly Oak, Birmingham and died at Bournbrook, also in Birmingham.

Cooke was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. 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]

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