His career total of 1,099 wickets included his 1000th wicket, <\/strong>which helped secure a memorable win over Worcestershire in 1975.<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\nDespite not being known for his batting, Hobbs scored nearly 5000 first-class runs in his career, including two centuries. His last century, in 1975 against the Australian touring team, was particularly notable as it came from just 46 balls, earning him the prestigious Walter Lawrence Trophy for the season’s fastest hundred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robin hibbs son, Nick, shared the news of his passing on social media, expressing his grief<\/strong>. In a 2020 interview with BBC Essex Sport, Hobbs reflected fondly on his career, especially on achieving over 1000 wickets as a legspinner, considering it unlikely to be repeated due to changes in county cricket scheduling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Hobbs, a former cricketer who played for Essex and England, has passed away at 81 years old. He had a successful career, taking more than 1000 wickets in first-class cricket before retiring in 1981…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[48,787,786],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}