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In his first-class career, Robinson played in 416 matches. He scored 9,744 runs in 460 innings (78 not out) at 25.50 with a highest score of 135*. He made seven centuries and forty eight fifties. He twice scored over a thousand runs in a season, 1,104 in 1921 and 1,097 in 1929, topping 900 on
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in 1919, Robinson was aged 35 and yet he continued playing until 1931, when he was 47. Cardus imagined that the Lord one day gathered together a heap of
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