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Hie nickname of 'Crusoe' derived, it is said, from a batsman who lost his wicket to him subsequently telling an inquirer that he had been out 'first ball, from a chap named Robinson Crusoe'.

This is the story that appears in Wisden [1]. As with most things cricket, there is an alternate (and apparently correct) version which appears in 46 notout. In it, R-G writes that Charles McGahey and his partner had added more than 50 when this incident occured. McGahey's quote was something like "bowled by a chap named Robinson Crusoe. I thought he was dead for two hundred years". (writing from memory, as usual, will take a few days for me to find the exact citation).

http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/9/9772.html is the only match in which R-G dismissed McGahey and it obviously wasn't off the first ball. Tintin (talk) 05:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll remove the first ball reference. I took material from the two slightly different versions given in the External Links, and split the difference. (I've responded to the message that you left on my Talk page, btw.) JH 09:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is the exact quote :

Secondly, I acquired a nickname which has stuck ever since. Charlie McGahey and AC Russell hadput on some 50 runs at the start of their second innings when I bowled McGahey with a full pitcher which he later referred to as a yorker. In the bowels of the pavilion, Johnny Douglas, the Essex captain, asked him how was out and McGahey answered : "I was bowled by an old ----- I thought was dead two thousand years ago, called Robinson Crusoe".

RC Robertson-Glasgow, 46 notout, Hollis & Carter (1948), p.108.

The "firstly" preceding this refers to Jardine who took 6 for 6 in a spell. Tintin (talk) 13:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's clearly definitive, and I'll amend the article accordingly. JH 17:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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