R. C. Robertson-Glasgow

Personal information

Full name

Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow

Born

15 July 1901
Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland

Died

4 March 1965 (aged 63)
Buckhold, Berkshire, England

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right arm fast-medium

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1920–1935

Somerset

1927–1933

Marylebone Cricket Club

1920–1923

Oxford 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 (born 15 July 1901 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland; died 4 March 1965 at Buckhold, Berkshire, England) was a Scottish cricketer and cricket writer.

Robertson-Glasgow was born in Edinburgh and educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 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 9-38.

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

He retired from regular cricket writing in 1953. He was Chairman of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1959.

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."

He committed suicide during a snowstorm whilst in the grip of melancholic depression.

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