Robert James Schaw (born 12 May 1984) is a former New Zealand

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. A

slow left-arm wrist-spin Left-arm unorthodox spin, also known as slow left-arm wrist-spin, is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use wrist spin to spin the ball, and make it deviate, or 'turn' from left to right after pitchin ...

bowler, Schaw was born in

Waipukurau Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the banks of the Tukituki River, 7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings. ...

Central Hawke's Bay District Central Hawke's Bay District is part of the Hawke's Bay Region in the North Island of New Zealand. Formed in 1989, it has an area of 3,333 square kilometres with a population of It had a population of 12,717 people as of the 2013 census. This is ...

's largest town, and played for

Central Districts cricket team The Central Stags, formerly known as Central Districts, are a first-class cricket team based in central New Zealand. They are the men's representative side of the Central Districts Cricket Association. They compete in the Plunket Shield fir ...

since his debut in 2006, featuring in the first class, one day and

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line-ups. In July 2009 he was purchased by

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by m ...

. Anthony Stuart, Wellington's coach, observed that "Robbie gives us some variation and I think he will thrive on the concentrated training environment we have ... He's bowled well against us in the past, he's a young guy and being a wrist spinner his best years are ahead of him."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schaw, Robbie New Zealand cricketers Central Districts cricketers Wellington cricketers People from Waipukurau 1984 births Living people Cricketers from Hawke's Bay