Robert Evans

Robert Gordon Evans (20 August 1899 – 2 August 1981) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.

Born at Great Barton in Suffolk, Evans was educated at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds. He served in the latter part of World War I with the Suffolk Regiment as a second lieutenant. After the war he went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in March 1919. He made eleven further first-class appearances for Cambridge in 1921. With his right-arm fast-medium bowling he took 45 wickets a bowling average of 22.77, with best innings figures of 6/45, one of three five wicket hauls he took. Evans gained a blue in 1921. He later taught at The Prebendal School in Chichester, and retired to nearby Sidlesham, where he died in August 1981.