Robert Brooke

Robert William Brooke (5 May 1940 – 15 May 2025) was an English cricket writer who published more than 20 books about the game, including those referred to in the bibliography below.

Life and career Born in Solihull, Brooke attended school in Dorridge and Yardley Grammar School in Birmingham. He was a longtime Warwickshire CCC member who served as the club's honorary librarian for several years. He was also active in MCC, the Cricket Society and the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS), of which he was the co-founder in 1973.

Brooke was the ACS chairman from 1973 to 1979, remained on the committee until 1986 and was the editor of the ACS journal, the Cricket Statistician, from 1973 to 1985. He was elected as an Honorary Life Member of the ACS in 1987. He was named as 'Statistician of the Year' for 1989 and for 2011.

As of 2003, he was the statistician and obituarist of The Cricketer. Some of his articles for that publication can be found on Cricinfo within their player profiles.

Brooke died on 15 May 2025, at the age of 85.