Robert Armstrong (cricketer)

Robert George Chadwick Armstrong (12 August 1836 – 9 June 1863) was an English cricketer. He was born at Gravesend, Kent and played nine times for Kent County Cricket Club between 1859 and 1861.

Robert Armstrong

Personal information
Full name	Robert George Chadwick Armstrong
Born	12 August 1836 Gravesend, Kent
Died	9 June 1863 (aged 26) Peckham, Surrey
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1859–1861	Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 9 Runs scored 76 Batting average 6.90 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 10* Balls bowled 44 Wickets 0 Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricInfo, 2 January 2012

Armstrong was the son of Samuel Francis and Agnes Armstrong. His father was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and as a young man Robert played cricket for Gravesend and in the Peckham Rye area where he lived for most of his life.[1][2]

He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent against Middlesex at Southgate in 1859, making a pair on debut.[1] Armstrong went on to make total of nine first-class appearances for the county,[lower-alpha 1] the last of which came against England in 1861.[4] He was considered a batsman with "good style" who had once promised "future excellence"[5] but in his 13 innings only once made a double figure score, 10 not out against an England XI at Lord's in 1860.[1] He was considered "slow" as a fielder.[5]

Armstrong played for a range of other sides in other matches, including for United and All England sides a number of times.[4] He died of tuberculosis at Peckham in what was then Surrey in June 1863 aged 26.[1][2][6]

Notes

1. Three of Armstrong's appearances were in Kent sides with 15 or 16 players, all against England XIs. These matches are not considered first-class by Kent County Cricket Club sources but are accepted as first-class by other sources.[3]

References

1. Carlaw D Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806-1914, p.18. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2019-12-29.)
2. Milton H (1999) The Bat and Ball Gravesend: a first-class cricket history, p.127. Gravesend: Gravesend Cricket Club. ISBN 0-9536041-0-1
3. Kent Records, in Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2018, p.141. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.
4. Robert Armstrong, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-12-29. (subscription required)
5. Haygarth A Scores and Biographies, quoted in Carlaw op. cit.
6. Robert Armstrong, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-12-29.

External links

Robert Armstrong at ESPNcricinfo