Robert Entwistle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Entwistle
cricketer
Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1941
Place of Birth: Burnley, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 11-Jul-2019
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Robert Entwistle
- Robert Entwistle (20 October 1941 – 11 July 2019) was an English cricketer.
- Entwistle was a right-handed batsman.
- He was born in Burnley, Lancashire.Entwistle made his first-class debut for Lancashire against Gloucestershire in the 1962 County Championship.
- He made 47 further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Yorkshire in the 1966 County Championship.
- In these matches he scored a total of 1,554 runs at an average of 20.72, with a highest score of 85 against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1964.His List A debut came against Leicestershire in the Preliminary round of the 1963 Gillette Cup, which was the first ever List A match to be played.
- Opening the batting, he was the first person to be dismissed in List A cricket, hit wicket to Rodney Pratt for 18.
- He made eight further List A appearances for Lancashire, the last of which came against Middlesex in the 1966 Gillette Cup.
- In his nine List A matches for the county, he scored 150 runs at an average of 25.00, with a high score of 48.
- He left Lancashire at the end of the 1966 season. In 1967, Entwistle joined Cumberland, making his debut for the county in the Minor Counties Championship against Durham.
- He played Minor counties cricket for Cumberland from 1967 to 1984, making 91 Minor Counties Championship and two MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances.
- During this time he also made a single first-class appearance for the Minor Counties against the touring West Indians in 1976, scoring 8 runs in the Minor Counties first-innings before being dismissed by John Holder, while in their second-innings he scored exactly 50 runs before being dismissed by Albert Padmore.
- He also made a single List A appearance for Cumberland, which came in the 1984 NatWest Trophy against Derbyshire.
- In a match which Cumberland lost by 9 wickets, Entwistle was dismissed for a duck by Roger Finney.He played as a professional for four Northern Cricket League teams from 1967 to 1986: Netherfield, Fleetwood, Darwen and St Annes.
- He scored 15,674 runs in all at an average of 51.13.
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