Robert Currie Summerhayes OBE (13 March 1903 — 7 June 1983) was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Robert Currie Summerhayes | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1903 Quetta, Baluchistan, British India | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 June 1983(1983-06-07) (aged 80) Mayfield, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1925/26–1938/39 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 7 June 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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.[1] 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.[2] He scored 379 runs in these matches at an average of 19.94, with two half centuries and one century;[3] his century, a score of 109, came opening the batting against the Parsees in 1936.[4] Summerhayes was a volunteer in the Bombay Battalion, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1931.[5]
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.[6] With his wife, he returned to England from Rawalpindi in the early 1950s,[7] where he became a dairy farmer at Mayfield, Sussex. He was prosecuted and fined £10 at Lewes Magistrates Courts in March 1960, having plead guilty to selling milk to which water had been added.[8] Summerhayes died at Mayfield in June 1983.