Rob Keogh

{{Short description|English cricketer}}

{{EngvarB|date=August 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Rob Keogh

| country = England

| image = File:Rob Keogh 2.png

| fullname = Robert Ian Keogh

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|10|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| heightm =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm off break

| role = Batsman

| club1 = Northamptonshire

| year1 = {{nowrap|2010–present}}

| clubnumber1 = 14

| type1 = First-class

| debutdate1 = 28 August

| debutyear1 = 2012

| debutfor1 = Northants

| debutagainst1 = Glamorgan

| type2 = List A

| debutdate2 = 31 August

| debutyear2 = 2010

| debutfor2 = Northants

| debutagainst2 = Yorkshire

| columns = 3

| column1 = FC

| matches1 = 140

| runs1 = 6,656

| bat avg1 = 30.39

| 100s/50s1 = 17/23

| top score1 = 221

| deliveries1 = 11,519

| wickets1 = 165

| bowl avg1 = 40.13

| fivefor1 = 4

| tenfor1 = 1

| best bowling1 = 9/52

| catches/stumpings1 = 30/–

| column2 = LA

| matches2 = 70

| runs2 = 1,879

| bat avg2 = 31.84

| 100s/50s2 = 3/14

| top score2 = 134

| deliveries2 = 1,671

| wickets2 = 30

| bowl avg2 = 51.03

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 4/49

| catches/stumpings2 = 16/–

| column3 = T20

| matches3 = 88

| runs3 = 1,096

| bat avg3 = 26.09

| 100s/50s3 = 0/4

| top score3 = 59*

| deliveries3 = 318

| wickets3 = 16

| bowl avg3 = 27.43

| fivefor3 = 0

| tenfor3 = 0

| best bowling3 = 3/30

| catches/stumpings3 = 35/–

| date = 26 May

| year = 2025

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/408413.html ESPNcricinfo

}}

Robert Ian Keogh (born 21 October 1991) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Northamptonshire. Keogh is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break.

After playing minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire, Keogh made his first-class debut in August 2012, playing for Northants against Glamorgan. This was his only first-class appearance that season, but the next year he played 8 games. In the match against Hampshire in September 2012, he scored his maiden first-class century, and then progressed to 221, including 32 boundaries before he was out.{{cite web|last1=Tennant|first1=Ivo|title=Adams hits back for golden generation|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2013/content/story/668625.html|website=Cricinfo|accessdate=30 August 2016}} He has scored at least one century in each subsequent season, but has so far failed to reach the milestone of 1000 runs in a season, his best being 876 runs in 2015, when he played in all 18 of Northants first-class games.{{cite web|title=FIRST-CLASS BATTING AND FIELDING IN EACH SEASON|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/383/383706/f_Batting_by_Season.html|website=Cricket Archive|accessdate=30 August 2016}}

He had previously played for the club in both List A and Twenty20 matches. He made his List A debut in August 2010, opening the batting against Yorkshire.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/383/383706/List_A_Matches.html|title=List A Matches played by Rob Keogh|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=23 September 2011}} His Twenty20 debut was in the following year. He played for Northants at Twenty20 finals day in 2016, when he finished on the winning side.{{cite web|last1=Dobell|first1=George|title=Defiant Northants dig deep to lift T20 prize|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2016/content/story/1048653.html|website=Cricinfo|accessdate=30 August 2016}} His best bowling figures in first-class cricket also came in the 2016 season, against Glamorgan when he and Graeme White took all twenty Glamorgan wickets between them. In the first innings, he took 9/52,{{cite web|title=Keogh claims NINE wickets to go sixth on all-time list for Northants|url=http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/keogh-claims-nine-wickets-to-go-sixth-on-all-time-list-for-northants-1-7556248|website=Northants Telegraph|accessdate=3 September 2016}} and took four wickets in the second innings, for match figures of 48.4-17-125-13.{{cite web|title=White, Keogh share all 20 to run through Glamorgan|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2016/content/story/1053379.html|website=Cricinfo|accessdate=3 September 2016}}