• Derrick Robins assembled a cricket team, captained by Chris Cowdrey, to tour Australia and New Zealand in February and March 1980. The team played only...
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  • the West Indies in Test and One Day International (ODI) teams for 17 years, as well as Barbados and Hampshire in first-class cricket. Greenidge is regarded...
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  • national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832. By the 1880s a national team, the Ceylon national cricket team, was formed...
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    John Wright (cricketer, born 1954) (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    runs in List A limited-overs cricket. Following his retirement in 1993, he coached the Indian national cricket team from 2000 to 2005 and New Zealand from...
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  • Trevor Chappell (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    cricket in 1986, Chappell went on to become fielding coach for the Sri Lanka cricket team in 1996, and in 2001 became coach of the Bangladesh cricket...
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  • Twenty20 International (T20I). International cricket began in 1877 when the England men's team played in the first-ever Test match. England have played...
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  • pre-fabricated buildings and sheds. Robins played two matches for Warwickshire in 1947, but did little and never played county cricket again. Extraordinarily, his...
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    Bishan Singh Bedi (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet. He played...
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  • Joyce Randolph, 99, American actress (The Honeymooners). Charles Robins, 88, English cricket player and administrator (Middlesex). Sigi Rothemund, 79, German...
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    Bob Taylor (cricketer) (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Taylor made his Test debut in 1971 in New Zealand at the end of the successful Ashes winning...
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    Geoff Howarth (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    former New Zealand cricketer and former captain, who remains the only New Zealand captain to have positive win–loss records in both Test cricket and ODI...
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    David Gower (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Gower led England during the 1985 Ashes, and his team was victorious; however, two 5–0 whitewashes...
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    Andrew Strauss (category Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup)
    from cricket. After a poor tour for England, he was recalled into the squad for the 2008 tour of New Zealand and subsequently re-established himself in the...
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    Ian Botham (category Cricketers at the 1979 Cricket World Cup)
    runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup and as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He played most of his first-class cricket for Somerset, at other...
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    West Indies in 1991 and missed the 1992 Cricket World Cup and tour of New Zealand with fitness problems, but was recalled to the Test team in the summer...
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    Bob Willis (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    World Cup 1979 (Group A)". Cricket Archive. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2009. "England v New Zealand – Prudential...
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    Graham Gooch (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup, as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup and as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Internationally...
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    squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Boycott made his international debut in a 1964 test match against Australia. He was...
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  • Mushtaq Mohammad (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    November 1943) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 57 Tests and 10 ODIs from 1959 to 1979. A right-handed batsman and a leg-spinner...
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    2009. "South Africa v England in 1930/31". CricketArchivey. Retrieved 27 December 2009. Hammond, p. 80. "England v New Zealand 1931". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack...
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  • Intikhab Alam (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    2009 ICC World Twenty20. In 2004, he was appointed the first foreigner to coach a domestic Indian cricket team, coaching Punjab in the Ranji Trophy. On 25...
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    Brian Close (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    captained the Derrick Robins' XI tours to apartheid South Africa. Robins' tours were the closest thing the South Africa team had to Test cricket at that time,...
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    Michael Vaughan (category Cricketers at the 2003 Cricket World Cup)
    is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer who played all forms of the game. He served as England captain for the test team from 2003 to 2008...
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  • John Emburey (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup. According to cricket writer Colin Bateman, Emburey's participation in two South African rebel tours "cost...
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    Gubby Allen (category H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers)
    reduced the amount of cricket Allen played in 1937, and he announced his unavailability for the summer's Test series against New Zealand. He played just four...
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  • Kevin Jarvis (cricketer) (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    also played in another B&H Cup final – though Kent lost this one to Gloucestershire. That winter he was selected to accompany DH Robins' side to Sri...
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  • Robin Jackman (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    was an English cricketer, who played in four Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1974 and 1983. He was a seam...
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    Nasser Hussain (category Cricketers at the 1999 Cricket World Cup)
    March 1968) is an Indian-born English cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall...
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  • Wayne Larkins (category D. H. Robins' XI cricketers)
    which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Born in Roxton, Bedfordshire, Larkins played cricket for Northamptonshire from 1972 until...
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    Alastair Cook (category Cricket people awarded knighthoods)
    Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams. He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen in test cricket. Cook is the fifth-highest Test run scorer...
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