Robert Coombs (cricketer)

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Robert Coombs

Personal information
Full name	Robert Vincent Jerome Coombs
Born	(1959-07-20) 20 July 1959 Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Left-arm orthodox spin
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1985–86	Somerset
First-class debut	14 August 1985 Somerset v Middlesex
Last First-class	19 August 1986 Somerset v Surrey
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 13 Runs scored 32 Batting average 5.33 100s/50s –/– Top score 18 Balls bowled 2099 Wickets 32 Bowling average 34.75 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 5/58 Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricketArchive, 11 March 2011

Robert Vincent Jerome Coombs (born 20 July 1959) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1985 and 1986. He was born at Barnet, Hertfordshire.

Coombs was a tall left-arm orthodox spin bowler and a tail-end right-handed batsman. Educated at Exeter University, he had played Minor Counties cricket for Dorset and second eleven cricket for Hampshire before arriving at Somerset in 1985. Brought into the first-team late in an unexpectedly poor season for the county side, Coombs made an immediate impact, taking the first five Middlesex wickets to fall in a rain-ruined match at Weston-super-Mare at a cost of 58 runs. In a soggy end to the 1985 season, Coombs bowled in only three further first-class innings spread across three rain-affected matches, but he took 11 further wickets in those and his 16 wickets at an average of 16.75 put him at the top of Somerset's bowling for the season. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack noted approvingly his "good bowling action and attacking bent". More frequent games in 1986, however, brought little success and the bowling figures from his first match remained the best of his short first-class career. In 1987, he was back playing Minor Counties cricket for Dorset and remained there until 1990. He did not play any List A cricket.