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Full name Robert William Taylor
Born July 17, 1941, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Current age 67 years 86 days
Major teams England,Derbyshire
Nickname Chat
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
57
83
12
1156
97
16.28
4260
27.13
0
3
100
1
167
7
ODIs
27
17
7
130
26*
13.00
312
41.66
0
0
7
0
26
6
First-class
639
880
167
12065
100
16.92
1
23
1473
176
List A
333
241
91
2227
53*
14.84
0
1
345
75
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
57
1
12
6
0
-
-
-
3.00
-
0
0
0
ODIs
27
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
639
117
75
1
1/23
75.00
3.84
117.0
0
0
List A
333
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Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v England at Christchurch, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1971 scorecard
Last Test
Pakistan v England at Lahore, Mar 19-24, 1984 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v West Indies at Leeds, Sep 5, 1973 scorecard
Last ODI
New Zealand v England at Auckland, Feb 25, 1984 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1960 - 1988
List A span
1963 - 1984
Profile
Among the few undisputed blessings of the Packer revolution was that it gave Bob Taylor the Test career he had almost given up hope of having. An uncomplaining understudy for almost a decade, Taylor's only cap before Alan Knott joined World Series Cricket was in New Zealand in 1970-71. Knott was fit and keen to play, but this was skipper Ray Illingworth's way of rewarding Taylor's loyalty and patience. Taylor was known as "Chat" by team-mates grateful for his willingness to talk, and often listen at length, to people he had never seen before and would never see again in tour receptions. He went on to play another 56 Tests, confirming that in wicketkeeping skills he lost nothing by comparison with Knott. As a batsman he was no more than a dogged little sticker. But it said everything about his sportsmanship that, at Adelaide in 1978-79, he walked for a tiny leg-side tickle when he was three short of what would have been his only England hundred. John Thicknesse October 2004
