''For the author with a similar name, see

Robert Swindells Robert E. Swindells (born 20 March 1939) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction. For the young-adult novel '' Stone Cold'' (Heinemann, 1993), which dealt with homelessness, he won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library ...

.'' Robert Swindell (born 22 January 1950) was an 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. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler who played for

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between 1972 and 1977. Having represented the Second XI since 1968, Swindell made his County Championship debut in 1972 in a draw against

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. Economical with the ball, he did not make a batting contribution throughout the match. He played extensively throughout the 1972 season which saw Derbyshire rooted to the foot of the Championship table, though he was to play against a team of

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early in the following season. He played little throughout the following five seasons and finished his first-class career with an expensive bowling return and little to show from his batting against an in-form

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side. Swindell was part of the Derbyshire tailend attack along with teammate

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during the early 1970s. Swindell played with the Second XI until 1978 and exited the game that summer, though he played one match with the

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(MCC) in 1983.

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