Robert Irving Newton (born 18 January 1990) is an English

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er who played for

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. He is an aggressive right-handed top order

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. Newton enjoyed a prolific cricket record while at school and was tipped by ''The Wisden Cricketer'' as 'one to watch'. He made his Northamptonshire first-team debut in 2009.

Early life

Although born in

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, he moved from

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at an early age to

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.Cuffley, David. (10 October 2005
"Rob and Bud England's likely lads"
''Norwich Evening News.'' Retrieved 31 July 2010. He first recalled playing cricket in the back garden aged four or five. From there he attend

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before boarding at

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in Suffolk. He made his senior club cricket debut for

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in the 2003 season, aged just 13, scoring five runs. After an impressive schools career which included averaging 94.70 as a 15-year-old at Framlingham and also a double century against the MCC, he was awarded a place on the Northants Academy in 2005. From there he regularly played for Northamptonshire under-17's and then from the age of 19, the second XI. Also during this period, he played for

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under-17s and captained

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(MCC) under-18s.

Career

Newton made his one-day debut for

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aged 19 in September 2009 against

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scoring seven. In 2010 people began to take note of his ability after an impressive performance in scoring his maiden one-day fifty against

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and decent scores in his debut first-class game against

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when a lot of others around him failed. He scored his first first-class century against

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in the final game of the 2010 season. In August 2012 he achieved the feat of scoring a century in each innings against

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. His highest first-class score to date came in August 2016, with 202 not out against

. In May 2017, he scored his first century in

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, when he made 107 for Northamptonshire against

in the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, Rob 1990 births Living people English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers People educated at Framlingham College Cricketers from Taunton