Mark Robinson blazes the way to Yorkshire Museum
Signed and delivered: Former Yorkshire capped player Mark Robinson presents his old blazer to Yorkshire President Brian Close so that it can be one of the varied exhibits in the Museum that Yorkshire County Cricket Club Archives Committee plans to assemble once the latest stage of the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground redevelopment is completed.
It has saddened the committee that so many former players have not preserved their memorabilia - let alone make it available for handing down to posterity at Headingley Carnegie - but Mark, who is now Director of Cricket at Sussex, brightened an otherwise miserable Scarborough Festival match in 2008 to lead by example.
He duly inscribed the blazer, and handed it to President Close in the company of Archives Committee member Ron Deaton.
Mark, a right-arm seam bowler from Hull, played for Yorkshire beween 1991 and 1995, claiming 218 First Class wickets at 31.49 runs apiece.
He bagged 6-57 and 4-44 at Durham in 1992 to give him match figures of 10-101, the best Championship figures by a Yorkshire bowler against that county.
The following season Mark hit the headlines in the match against Northamptonshire at Harrogate by capturing 9- 37...again the best figures against that county by a White Rose bowler and the best of Mark's career.
Mark also made a valuable contribution for Yorkshire in one-day cricket by taking 89 wickets at 30.62.