Robin Rudd

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title: "Robin Rudd" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1929-births", "1996-deaths", "cricketers-from-cape-town", "people-educated-at-eton-college", "alumni-of-trinity-college,-oxford", "south-african-cricketers", "buckinghamshire-cricketers", "south-african-expatriate-cricketers-in-england", "oxford-university-cricketers", "marylebone-cricket-club-cricketers", "free-foresters-cricketers", "south-african-people-of-english-descent"] description: "South African cricketer" topic_path: "technology/web" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rudd" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
country	South Africa
fullname	Clifford Robin David Rudd
birth_date
birth_place	Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
death_date
death_place	Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
batting	Right-handed
family	Philip Rudd (son)
club1	Marylebone Cricket Club
year1	1950–1960
club2	Oxford University
year2	1949–1951
club3	Buckinghamshire
year3	1946
columns	1
column1	First-class
matches1	21
runs1	604
bat avg1	16.77
100s/50s1	–/3
top score1	70
deliveries1	–
wickets1	–
bowl avg1	–
fivefor1	–
tenfor1	–
best bowling1	–
catches/stumpings1	11/–
date	14 May
year	2011
source	http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19493.html Cricinfo
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Clifford Robin David Rudd (25 March 1929 – 30 August 1996) was a South African cricketer. Rudd was a right-handed batsman.

He was a son of Bevil Gordon d'Urban Rudd, an Olympic sprinter, and Ursula Mary Knight, daughter of Clifford Hume Knight, the Italian Consul to Cape Town. Robin was born in Cape Town, Cape Province and later educated at Eton College in England, where he captained the college cricket team in 1946.

Rudd made his debut in county cricket for Buckinghamshire in the 1946 Minor Counties Championship, making a single appearance against Berkshire. He made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Gloucestershire in 1949. He played 16 first-class matches for Oxford University, the last coming against Middlesex in 1951. In those 16 first-class matches, he scored 452 runs at a batting average of 16.74, with a 2 half centuries and a high score of 66.

He also played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club, making 3 appearances for the team. These came against Ireland on the clubs tour of Ireland in 1951, Canada on the MCC 1951 tour of Canada, and lastly against Ireland on the MCC 1960 tour of Ireland. He scored 101 runs at an average of 20.20, with a single half century score of 70. In addition, he played 2 first-class matches for the Free Foresters in 1952.

Following the end of his cricket career, he worked for the Anglo American Corporation. He died in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on 30 August 1996. He was survived by his son, Philip, who played first-class cricket for Griqualand West.

References

References

1. "Robin Rudd".
2. "Teams Robin Rudd played for". CricketArchive.
3. "First-Class Matches played by Robin Rudd". CricketArchive.
4. "First-Class Matches played by Robin Rudd". CricketArchive.
5. "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Robin Rudd". CricketArchive.
6. "Wisden - Obituaries in 1996". ESPNcricinfo.

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