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Sam David Robson (born 1 July 1989) is an Australian-born English
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er who plays for
Middlesex County Cricket Club Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ...
. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional
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bowler. Born to an Australian father and English mother, Robson played under-19 cricket for Australia but qualified for England in August 2013. In 2012 he became the first batsman to score a first-class hundred in England in the month of March.


Career

Born 1 July 1989 in
Paddington, New South Wales Paddington is an upscale inner-city area of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Located east of the Sydney central business district, Paddington lies across two local government areas. The portion south of Oxford Street l ...
, Robson was educated at Marist College Pagewood before moving to
Marcellin College Randwick , motto_translation = The Eternal, not the Transitory , established = , type = Independent single-sex secondary day school , gender = Boys , denomination = Roman Catholicism , religious_affiliation = Marist Brothers , affiliations = Ass ...
. Robson had also attended
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in Year 10, playing in the school's 1st XI in the GPS. His Australian father, Jim Robson, played for
Worcestershire County Cricket Club Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team has been rebrande ...
against Ireland in 1979 and now works at the
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. Sam's younger brother Angus also played first-class cricket. Robson played cricket for New South Wales Under-17s, New South Wales Under-19s, the
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, the
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, and Eastern Suburbs. He left Sydney after school as he was stuck behind
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, his schoolmate
Phillip Hughes Phillip Joel Hughes (30 November 1988 – 27 November 2014) was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who play ...
, and others in the NSW pecking order. He started to play for the Middlesex
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in 2008, and played his first
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match for Middlesex against Worcestershire in the
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on 14 September 2008. He played
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in Sydney in 2008-9. Robson made his first-class debut in June 2009, scoring 43 and 23 for Middlesex against
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at
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. He is a "wiry Australian who loves the circuit" and, according to
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's Mark Pennell, "With an English mother and a UK passport to his name, he looks to be a decent find." In his debut season of 2009, he recorded his maiden first-class century, opening the batting against
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at
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in August. He was eventually out for 110 On 31 March 2012, on the first day of a three-day match against
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, Robson made cricket history by becoming the first batsman to score a first-class hundred in England in the month of March.


International qualification

Robson has British and Australian nationality but played for Australia in nine Under-19 ODIs against Pakistan in April and October 2007. He was expected to qualify for England by residency in the summer of 2014 but achieved it unexpectedly early, in August 2013. In order to play for Middlesex on his British passport he signed a document stating his desire and intention to play for and qualify for England but by 2013 had not committed to either Australia or England at senior level. His captain at Middlesex, fellow Aussie Chris Rogers, said that Robson considered a return to Australia but "I think his future is in England", while the Middlesex director of cricket
Angus Fraser Angus Robert Charles Fraser (born 8 August 1965) is an English cricket administrator. He served as the managing director of Middlesex Cricket between 2009 and 2021, before assuming a new role heading the club's academy He is also a former E ...
said in August 2013 "I'm pretty sure that it'll be playing for England". Robson has expressed a clear commitment to Middlesex as he views the County Championship as the best tournament for his development as a cricketer, but under current rules as a dual national he would be treated as an Australian player if he played for an Australian state side and thus would be treated as an overseas player at Middlesex. Cricket Australia changed their rules in August 2013 to allow dual nationals to be treated as overseas players in Australia, so that he could play for NSW in the
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without compromising his status at Middlesex, which could lead to him playing for the Australian Test side. However, in June 2014 he was named in the England Test squad for their series against Sri Lanka, before making his debut in the first Test. Robson scored 1 and 19 on his Test debut, before making his maiden Test century with 127 in the first innings of the second Test.


International career

Robson has played in seven Test matches for England, all in 2014. He was named in the England squad to face
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
on their tour of England in June, making his debut in the first Test. In his second international he scored his only Test cricket century, making 127 runs in England's first innings. Robson retained his place for the first Test against
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, making a half century in the match. He went on to play in the other four matches of the tour, although he was not able to make more than 37 runs in an innings.


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