Robert John Rollins (born 30 January 1974) is a former English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. Rollins was a right-handed
batsman who bowled right-arm
medium pace, but played primarily as a
wicketkeeper.
In a career that lasted 11 years, he represented
Essex in
first-class cricket and
List-A cricket,
Cambridgeshire in
Minor Counties and List-A cricket and
Huntingdonshire in List-A cricket.
In his 7-year career with Essex, he forged a successful, if inconsistent first-class career. He played 69 first-class matches, where he scored 2,258 runs at a
batting average of 22.35, with 11
half centuries and a single century. His highest score in first-class cricket was 133
*. Behind the
stumps
In cricket, the stumps are the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket. '' Stumping'' or ''being stumped'' is a method of dismissing a batsman.
The umpire ''calling stumps'' means the play is over for the day.
Part of ...
he took 158
catches and made 21
stumping
Stumped is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket, which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground. (The batsman leaves his ground when he has moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease ...
s.
First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Robert Rollins
/ref> In List-A cricket, he played from 1993 to 2003 with a number of counties, playing a total of 109 matches, where he scored 1,197 runs at an average of 17.86. In the process, he made 6 half centuries with a high score of 87 *. Behind the stumps he took 87 catches and made 26 stumpings.
His brother Adrian played first-class and List A cricket for Derbyshire and Northamptonshire.
References
External links
Robert Rollins
at Cricinfo
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Robert Rollins
at CricketArchive
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1974 births
Living people
People from Plaistow, Newham
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Newham
English cricketers
Essex cricketers
Cambridgeshire cricketers
Huntingdonshire cricketers
NBC Denis Compton Award recipients
Black British sportsmen
Test and County Cricket Board XI cricketers
Cricketers from Greater London