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Full name | Robert Irving Newton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Taunton, England | 18 January 1990||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2009–2020 | Northamptonshire (squad no. 10) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 29 July 2010 Northamptonshire v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 19 September 2009 Northamptonshire v Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,30 September 2019 |
Robert Irving Newton (born 18 January 1990) is an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. He is an aggressive right-handed top order batsman. Newton enjoyed a prolific cricket record while at school and was tipped by The Wisden Cricketer as 'one to watch'. [1] He made his Northamptonshire first-team debut in 2009.
Although born in Taunton,he moved from Somerset at an early age to Norfolk. [2] He first recalled playing cricket in the back garden aged four or five. [2] From there he attend Taverham Hall School before boarding at Framlingham College in Suffolk. [3] He made his senior club cricket debut for Swardeston in the 2003 season,aged just 13,scoring five runs. [4] After an impressive schools career which included averaging 94.70 as a 15-year-old at Framlingham and also a double century against the MCC, [5] he was awarded a place on the Northants Academy in 2005. From there he regularly played for Northamptonshire under-17's and then from the age of 19,the second XI. [6] Also during this period,he played for England under-17s and captained Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) under-18s.
Newton made his one-day debut for Northamptonshire aged 19 in September 2009 against Middlesex scoring seven. [7] In 2010 people began to take note of his ability after an impressive performance in scoring his maiden one-day fifty against Essex [8] and decent scores in his debut first-class game against Worcestershire when a lot of others around him failed. He scored his first first-class century against Leicestershire in the final game of the 2010 season.
In August 2012 he achieved the feat of scoring a century in each innings against Derbyshire. [9] His highest first-class score to date came in August 2016,with 202 not out against Leicestershire. [10]
In May 2017,he scored his first century in List A cricket,when he made 107 for Northamptonshire against Worcestershire in the 2017 Royal London One-Day Cup. [11]
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