Robert Miles (cricketer)

Robert Fenton Miles (24 January 1846 – 26 February 1930) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1867 to 1879 for Oxford University and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a slow left arm orthodox bowler who made 69 first-class career appearances. Miles scored 577 runs with a highest score of 79. He took 217 wickets with a best bowling analysis of 7/38. He took five wickets in an innings on 15 occasions and twice took ten wickets in a match.[1]

One of 10 children of the Reverend Robert Miles (1818–1883), he was the elder brother of both Frank Miles the artist and the Reverend Charles Oswald Miles.[2] Seven members of the family (three brothers, two cousins and an uncle) played first-class cricket in the Victorian era. Miles married Bridget Hare, daughter of the Reverend Henry Bassano Hare, in 1874 and had three children.

References
  1. CricketArchive. Retrieved on 2 December 2010.
  2. "Person Page".


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