Robert Henry Sharp (11 June 1893 – 15 March 1961) was an English

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. A right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed bat from Doncaster, Yorkshire, Sharp played first-class cricket for Essex, primarily during the

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. He played twelve matches that year, scoring 146 runs at 13.27 including a best of 36 not out, and took 16 wickets at 43.50. He played sporadically for two more seasons - three matches in 1926 and a single game in 1928 - before his playing career ended. He died in Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, Robert 1893 births 1961 deaths Cricketers from Doncaster Essex cricketers English cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945