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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = John Robinson
|               image =
|            fullname = John Sandford Robinson
|          birth_date = {{birth date|1868|2|5|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [[Arnold, Nottinghamshire]], England
|          death_date = {{death date and age|1898|4|21|1868|2|5|df=yes}}
|         death_place = [[Worksop Manor]], England
|             batting = Right-handed
|                role = [[Wicket-keeper]]
|               club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
|               year1 = 1888
|               club2 = [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]]
|               year2 = 1888–1896
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
|            matches1 = 48
|               runs1 = 751
|            bat avg1 = 11.04
|           100s/50s1 = 0/2
|          top score1 = 72
|         deliveries1 = 15
|            wickets1 = –
|           bowl avg1 = –
|            fivefor1 = –
|             tenfor1 = –
|       best bowling1 = 0/3
|  catches/stumpings1 = 41/3
|                date = 4 August 2013
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19776.html Cricinfo
}}
'''John Sandford Robinson''' (5 February 1868 &ndash; 21 April 1898) was an English [[cricket]]er. He played for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]], the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) and [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] between 1888 and 1896.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19776.html |title= John Robinson |access-date=4 August 2013 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> He was born at [[Arnold, Nottinghamshire|Arnold]], [[Nottinghamshire]] and died at [[Worksop]], also in Nottinghamshire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/227105.html|title=Obituaries in 1898|date=24 November 2005|website=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]}}</ref> He was known during his lifetime as "Sandford Robinson" as his father was called "John Robinson".<ref name="obit">{{cite news| title = Obituary: Mr J. Sandford Robinson | newspaper = Sheffield Daily Telegraph/British Newspaper Archive  | page = 7 | location = Sheffield | date = 22 April 1898}}</ref>
==Biography==
Robinson's father founded the successful Home Brewery in [[Daybrook]], Arnold in 1875, later acquired [[Worksop Manor]] and was knighted in 1905; Sandford Robinson was sent to [[Harrow School]] and then he went to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/332/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: John Sandford Robinson | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 5| page = 332| publisher = Cambridge, University Press | access-date = 5 February 2015}}</ref> As a cricketer, he was a right-handed batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper, but neither at school nor at university did he make much impression: at Harrow he did not play in the grand set-piece cricket matches against the other major public schools, though he did appear in a 12-a-side match with the MCC in 1886.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32443/Miscellaneous_Matches.html| title = Miscellaneous Matches Played by Sandford Robinson| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref> At Cambridge, he played in two trial games but was given only one chance in the first team: a match against the Gentlemen of England in which he opened the batting, scored 7 and 1, and took a catch in each innings.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3306.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v Gentlemen of England | date = 17 May 1888 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref> He did no better in a game for Nottinghamshire later in that season and in single matches in both 1889 and 1890 ''against'' Cambridge University – playing for an opposing team was a frequent ploy used by Cambridge when they wanted to try a cricketer out, but in Robinson's case it led to no further first-team appearances.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32443/32443.html | title = Sandford Robinson | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 7 February 2015}}</ref>
Robinson graduated from [[Cambridge University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1890.<ref name="venn"/> In 1891 and 1892, he played first-class cricket fairly regularly for Nottinghamshire, captaining the team on occasion, and for some [[amateur status in first-class cricket|amateur]] teams, though only in 1892 did he have any success: his two first-class scores of more than 50 both came in this season.<ref name="ca"/> His best innings was a score of 72 in the Nottinghamshire game against [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] when he put on 161 for the fifth wicket with [[Arthur Shrewsbury]], who made 212.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3825.html | title = Scorecard: Middlesex v Nottinghamshire | date = 20 June 1892 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 7 February 2015}}</ref> At the end of the 1892 English cricket season he joined [[Lord Hawke's XI cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1892–93]], where he played in a single first-class match; he did not then appear at all in first-class cricket in 1893.<ref name="ca"/> He reappeared in Nottinghamshire matches in 1894 and occasionally kept wicket that season, and at the end of it he went on a second tour, this time with [[Lord Hawke]] to [[Lord Hawke's XI cricket team in North America in 1894|North America]], where he played in two first-class cricket matches.<ref name="ca"/> He played occasionally in both 1895 and 1896 with no success.
Robinson had other interests outside cricket, though he appears not to have had a career or profession. He was a captain in the [[Robin Hood Rifles]], a volunteer army unit raised in Nottinghamshire and he also played football for [[Worksop Town F. C.]]<ref name="obit"/> He was also engaged in [[field sports]] and a fall from his horse while hunting two weeks before he died was thought to have accelerated his death, which was unexpected.<ref name="obit"/>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=19776}}
*{{cricketarchive|ref=Archive/Players/32/32443/32443.html}}
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