Robert Henry Darke (25 January 1876 – 19 July 1961) was an
English first-class
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 striki ...
er.
Darke was born at Dunsden House in the village of
Dunsden, Oxfordshire. He made a single appearance in
first-class cricket for the
Gentlemen of England against
Oxford University at
Crystal Palace in 1905. In a match where no play was possible on the first two days due to rain, Darke was not called upon to bat or bowl on the third and final day of the match.
Darke died at
Balham
Balham () is an area in south London, England, mostly within the London Borough of Wandsworth with small parts within the neighbouring London Borough of Lambeth. The area has been settled since Saxon times and appears in the Domesday Book as B ...
in July 1961.
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1876 births
1961 deaths
People from South Oxfordshire District
English cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Cricketers from Oxfordshire
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