Robert Cooke

Who was Robert Cooke?

Robert Cooke was an English first-class cricketer who played in 15 matches for Warwickshire in 1925 and 1926. 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. 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.