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R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
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Personal information
Full name
Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow
Born(1901-07-15)15 July 1901
Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died4 March 1965(1965-03-04) (aged 63)
Buckhold, Berkshire, England
NicknameCrusoe
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1920–1935Somerset
1927–1933Marylebone Cricket Club
1920–1923Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 144
Runs scored 2,102
Batting average 13.22
100s/50s 0/4
Top score 80
Balls bowled 25,190
Wickets 464
Bowling average 25.77
5 wickets in innings 28
10 wickets in match 6
Best bowling 9/38
Catches/stumpings 88/–
Source: CricketArchive, 16 December 2008

Raymond Charles "Crusoe" Robertson-Glasgow (15 July 1901 – 4 March 1965) was a Scottish cricketer and cricket writer.

Life and career

Robertson-Glasgow was born in Edinburgh and educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[1] He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played for Oxford University and Somerset. During his career, which lasted from 1920 to 1937, he took 464 wickets at 25.77 in first-class cricket, with best innings figures of 9 for 38 when Somerset defeated Middlesex at Lord's in June 1924.[2]

Convivial, popular and humorous, he subsequently won acclaim for his writing, in which his strong sense of humour shone through.[3] In 1933 he became cricket correspondent for the Morning Post. He later wrote for the Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Sunday Times.

Robertson-Glasgow retired from regular cricket writing in 1953. He was Chairman of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1959.[4]

His nickname of "Crusoe" came, according to Robertson-Glasgow himself, from the Essex batsman Charlie McGahey. When his captain asked McGahey how he had been dismissed, he replied: "I was bowled by an old ----- I thought was dead two thousand years ago, called Robinson Crusoe."[5]

Robertson-Glasgow committed suicide during a snowstorm whilst in the grip of melancholic depression.[1][6]

Books

Robertson-Glasgow's cricket books include:[7]

  • Cricket Prints: Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920-1940) (Werner Laurie, 1948)
  • More Cricket Prints: Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920-1945) (1948)
  • 46 Not Out - an autobiography (1948)
  • Rain Stopped Play (1948)
  • The Brighter Side of Cricket (Arthur Barker, 1950)
  • All in the Game (1952)
  • How to Become a Test Cricketer (1962)
  • Crusoe on Cricket: The Cricket Writings of R. C. Robertson-Glasgow (1966)

He also wrote the following non-cricket books:

  • I was Himmler's Aunt (1940)
  • No Other Land (1942)
  • Country Talk: A Miscellany (1964)

References

  1. ^ a b Foot, David. "Cricket's Crusoe on this sporting life". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Middlesex v Somerset 1924". Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  3. ^ Christopher Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties (1976)
  4. ^ Cricket Writers' Club Honours Board.. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. ^ RC Robertson-Glasgow, 46 Not Out, Hollis & Carter (1948), p.108.
  6. ^ "Raymond Robertson-Glasgow". Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  7. ^ Robertson Glasgow R C – new and used books

External links

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