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Robert Woodman

English cricketer (born 1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7351234 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert James Woodman (born 12 October 1986) is an English former professional cricketer who played for Somerset and Gloucestershire. He played as a left-handed batsman and left-arm fast-medium bowler.

As of April 2021, he is the head of cricket at King’s College, Taunton.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Robert Woodman” as english cricketer (born 1986). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1986, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-10-12. The account is most persuasive where Robert, Woodman and English can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as english cricketer (born 1986). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7351234. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Woodman” 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.