William Robertson (Canterbury cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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New Zealand cricketer, born 1864
Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1864
Place of Birth: Invercargill, Southland Region, New Zealand
Date of Death: 05-Apr-1912
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: New Zealand
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About William Robertson (Canterbury cricketer)
- William Robertson (4 March 1864 – 5 April 1912) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1894 to 1901 and played in New Zealand's first representative matches. An off-spinner who opened the bowling, on his first-class debut for Canterbury against Auckland in January 1894 Robertson took 8 for 59 then, bowling unchanged throughout the second innings, 6 for 48.
- In his next match he took 6 for 72 (unchanged again) and 2 for 72.
- Selected for New Zealand's first representative match in February 1894, he was New Zealand's outstanding player, taking 6 for 76 and 4 for 73 in a 160-run loss to New South Wales.
- He then took seven wickets against Otago and eight against Hawke's Bay to give him 47 wickets in five matches at an average of 12.12.
- He was New Zealand's leading wicket-taker for the season.After taking only one wicket in the first match in 1894-95, he then took 4 for 65 and 9 for 98 against Wellington, 6 for 54 and 5 for 40 against Fiji, and four wickets against Otago, to finish with 29 wickets at 14.00.
- He was New Zealand's joint leading wicket-taker for the season.He played only one match in 1895-96, for New Zealand against New South Wales, when he took three wickets and made his highest score, 15, in a tenth-wicket partnership of 67 with Arthur Fisher that gave New Zealand a sufficient lead to enable them to go on to their first victory.
- After a gap of five years he returned to the Canterbury side in 1900-01 for his final two matches, and took six wickets. Dick Brittenden said of Robertson: "He spun the ball either way a prodigious amount ...
- Small and slender, he suffered much ill-health, and asthma ended a brilliant career cruelly early." An accident in his youth had resulted in the loss of two fingers of his left hand.
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