Robert Summerhayes

{{Short description|English cricketer (1903–1983)}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}

{{for|the American judge|Robert R. Summerhays}}

{{Infobox cricketer

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| country = England

| fullname = Robert Currie Summerhayes

| birth_date = 13 March 1903

| birth_place = Quetta, Baluchistan,
British India

| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|6|7|1903|3|13|df=yes}}

| death_place = Mayfield, Sussex, England

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Unknown

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1925/26–1938/39

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 10

| runs1 = 379

| bat avg1 = 19.94

| 100s/50s1 = 1/2

| top score1 = 109

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 8/–

| date = 7 June

| year = 2022

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/34462.html Cricinfo

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Robert Currie Summerhayes {{postnominal|OBE}} (13 March 1903 — 7 June 1983) was an English first-class cricketer.

Summerhayes was born in British India at Quetta in March 1903. He was educated in England at St Lawrence College, before matriculating to Brasenose College, Oxford.{{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}} After graduating from Oxford, Summerhayes returned to India. While there, he played in ten first-class cricket matches for the Europeans cricket team between 1926 and 1938, with nine of the matches coming in the Bombay Pentangular.{{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}} He scored 379 runs in these matches at an average of 19.94, with two half centuries and one century;{{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}} his century, a score of 109, came opening the batting against the Parsees in 1936.{{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}} Summerhayes was a volunteer in the Bombay Battalion, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1931.{{cite book |title=The Indian Army List|date=1932|page=429|publisher=Defense Department|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDQppNKcfzIC|language=en}}

Summerhayes was employed by the Burmah–Shell Oil Company and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=37407|date=28 December 1945|page=59}} With his wife, he returned to England from Rawalpindi in the early 1950s,C.M.S. Sale Was Family Affair. Sussex Agricultural Express. 3 July 1953. p. 9 where he became a dairy farmer at 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.Water in milk mystery. Sussex Agricultural Express. 11 March 1960. p. 19 Summerhayes died at Mayfield in June 1983.