Robert Ian Keogh (born 21 October 1991) is an English

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er who currently plays for

Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

. Keogh is a right-handed

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who bowls right-arm

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. After playing minor counties cricket for

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council ...

, Keogh made his first-class debut in August 2012, playing for Northants against Glamorgan. This was his only first-class appearance that season, but the next year he played 8 games. In the match against Hampshire in September 2012, he scored his maiden first-class century, and then progressed to 221, including 32 boundaries before he was out. He has scored at least one century in each subsequent season, but has so far failed to reach the milestone of 1000 runs in a season, his best being 876 runs in 2015, when he played in all 18 of Northants first-class games. He had previously played for the club in both

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and

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matches. He made his List A debut in August 2010, opening the batting against

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. His Twenty20 debut was in the following year. He played for Northants at Twenty20 finals day in 2016, when he finished on the winning side. His best bowling figures in first-class cricket also came in the 2016 season, against Glamorgan when he and

Graeme White Graeme Geoffrey White (born 18 April 1987) is a professional cricketer currently playing for Northamptonshire. Career Graeme was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, which is also where former Northamptonshire teammates Rob White, Be ...

took all twenty Glamorgan wickets between them. In the first innings, he took 9/52, and took four wickets in the second innings, for match figures of 48.4-17-125-13.

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