| Robert Cooke | |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Selly Oak, Birmingham, England |
| Death Place: | Bournbrook, Birmingham, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Role: | Bowler |
| Club1: | Warwickshire |
| Type1: | First-class |
| Debutdate1: | 16 May |
| Debutyear1: | 1925 |
| Debutagainst1: | Somerset |
| Lastdate1: | 14 July |
| Lastyear1: | 1926 |
| Lastagainst1: | Glamorgan |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 15 |
| Runs1: | 66 |
| Bat Avg1: | 3.88 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 14 |
| Deliveries1: | 1,248 |
| Wickets1: | 16 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 31.68 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/22 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 6/– |
| Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/robert-cooke-11293 ESPNcricinfo |
| Date: | 26 December |
| Year: | 2022 |
Robert Cooke (25 May 1900 – 14 January 1957) was an English first-class cricketer who played in 15 matches for Warwickshire from 1925 to 1926.[1]
Born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, Cooke was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman. In his second first-class match, the game against Kent at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells, in July 1925, he finished off the Kent first innings with a hat-trick of three wickets in three balls, in fact taking four wickets in five balls; later in the same match, he was himself part of a hat-trick taken by the Kent bowler Charlie Wright which finished off the Warwickshire second innings.[2] Cooke's figures of five wickets for 22 runs in Kent's first innings were by some distance the best of his career, and in no other innings in a brief first-class career did he take more than two wickets.[3]
Cooke died at age 56 on 14 January 1957 in Bournbrook, Birmingham.[1]