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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|English cricketer (1903–1983)}}<br />
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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
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| country = England<br />
| full_name = Robert Currie Summerhayes<br />
| birth_date = 13 March 1903<br />
| birth_place = [[Quetta]], [[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)|Baluchistan]],<br>[[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|6|7|1903|3|13|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Mayfield and Five Ashes|Mayfield]], [[Sussex]], England<br />
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| batting = Right-handed<br />
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| role = Opening batsman<br />
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = {{nowrap|1925/26–1938/39}}<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 10<br />
| runs1 = 379<br />
| bat avg1 = 19.94<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 1/2<br />
| top score1 = 109<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 8/–<br />
| date = 7 June<br />
| year = 2022<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/34462.html Cricinfo<br />
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'''Robert Currie Summerhayes''' {{postnominal|OBE}} (13 March 1903 – 7 June 1983) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er.<br />
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Summerhayes was born in [[British India]] at [[Quetta]] in March 1903. He was educated in England at [[St Lawrence College, Ramsgate|St Lawrence College]], before matriculating to [[Brasenose College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford University Gazette|date=1922|page=4|volume=53|publisher=University of Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxeRARojq5UC|language=en}}</ref> After graduating from Oxford, Summerhayes returned to India.<br />
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In India, Summerhayes played in ten [[first-class cricket]] matches for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] between 1926 and 1938, with nine of the matches coming in the [[Bombay Pentangular]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14666/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Robert Summerhayes|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-06-07|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 379 runs in these matches at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 19.94, with two half centuries and one [[century (cricket)|century]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14666/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Robert Summerhayes|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-06-07|url-access=subscription}}</ref> his century, a score of 109, came [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batters|opening the batting]] against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] in 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16050.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Quadrangular Tournament 1936/37|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-06-07|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Summerhayes was a volunteer in the Bombay Battalion, being commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in April 1931.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Indian Army List|date=1932|page=429|publisher=Defense Department|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDQppNKcfzIC|language=en}}</ref><br />
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Summerhayes was employed by the [[Burmah Oil|Burmah–Shell Oil Company]] and was made an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1946 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37407|date=28 December 1945|page=59}}</ref> With his wife, he returned to England from [[Rawalpindi]] in the early 1950s,<ref>C.M.S. Sale Was Family Affair. ''Sussex Agricultural Express''. 3 July 1953. p. 9</ref> where he became a dairy farmer at [[Mayfield and Five Ashes|Mayfield, Sussex]]. He was prosecuted and fined £10 at Lewes Magistrates Courts in March 1960, having pleaded guilty to selling milk to which water had been added.<ref>Water in milk mystery. ''Sussex Agricultural Express''. 11 March 1960. p. 19</ref> Summerhayes died at Mayfield in June 1983.<br />
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