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Stuart Robertson (cricketer)

Zimbabwean cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ11006800 ↗
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Stuart David Robertson (born 1 May 1947) is a former Zimbabwean first class cricketer. He played for what was then Rhodesia during the 1970s. In 1972 he was one of the South African Cricket Annual Cricketers of the Year.

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“Stuart Robertson (cricketer)” enters the record as zimbabwean cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stuart, Robertson and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-05-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stuart, Robertson and cricketer.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11006800. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stuart Robertson (cricketer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.