Robert Poore

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Robert Poore
Boscombe, Bournemouth
, England
BattingRight-handed
International information
National side
Test debut13 February 1896 v England
Last Test21 March 1896 v England
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 3 55
Runs scored 76 3,441
Batting average 12.66 38.66
100s/50s 0/0 11/12
Top score 20 304
Balls bowled 9 470
Wickets 1 13
Bowling average 4.00 19.38
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/4 2/10
Catches/stumpings 3/– 38/–
Source: Cricinfo, 13 November 2022

Robert Montagu Poore

South African cricket team. Much of his cricket was played when he held the rank of major, but he eventually became a brigadier-general. "Of all the people in the history of the game," wrote Leo Cooper in an introduction to A. A. Thomson's Odd Men In, "he seems to stand for the Eccentric Ideal."[1]

Military career

Poore was the son of Major Robert Poore (1834–1918) and his wife Juliana Lowry-Corry, daughter of Rear-Admiral

Armar Lowry-Corry
.

He joined the

despatch dated 31 March 1900, the commander-in-chief, Lord Roberts, described how Poore "has exercised his responsible duties, whether as regards the care of prisoners, or in maintaining order in camp and on the line of march, in a most satisfactory manner".[2]

Poore was provost marshal during the trial and execution of Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock, and his diary includes contemporary notes on their case.[3]

Cricket career

In

Wisden Cricketer of the Year.[5]

Poore returned to South Africa after the 1899 season to fight in the

Australians.[6] It was hoped Major Poore would be available again in 1903, but he went to India that summer and when he returned to Hampshire in the middle of 1904 to great expectations, his form was disappointing. Although there were few difficult pitches in the nine games he played, he averaged under twenty and only once (on a bad wicket against Sussex
) did he show the skill that allowed him to dominate bowlers in 1899. In 1905 he again could not play at all, but he rejoined the team against Derbyshire in 1906 and in two matches scored 232 runs including 129 against Sussex, but another injury ended his season and as it turned out, his county career.

In spite of his impressive success, Poore was not yet overly enamoured with the game, which he had learnt not through classical coaching but the perusal of textbooks; certainly, it was not the only field in which his prodigious talents lay: he was a first-rate swordsman, shot and polo player, and once won the West of India lawn tennis championship. Not until, as a subaltern, he visited India with the 7th Hussars did he realise his love for cricket, a love that he sustained all through his life. Poore remained a dangerous batsman in club games right up to his mid-fifties, and played first-class cricket in India as late as 1913.

Family

In 1898 Poore married Lady Flora Mary Ida Douglas-Hamilton (1866–1957), daughter of Captain Charles-Douglas-Hamilton, and sister of the 13th Duke of Hamilton. The couple had no children. Three years after their marriage, Poore's sister Nina Mary Benita Poore (1878–1951), married her brother's brother-in-law, and became Duchess of Hamilton.

References

  1. ^ Cooper introduction to Odd Men In, pp. v–vi.
  2. ^ "No. 27282". The London Gazette. 8 February 1901. p. 844.
  3. ^ "Diary sinks reputation of Breaker Morant". The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  4. ^ Somerset v Hampshire 1899. Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved on 3 May 2018.
  5. ^ Major Robert Poore. Espncricinfo.com. Retrieved on 3 May 2018.
  6. ^ Hampshire v Australians 1902. Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved on 3 May 2018.

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