the extent to which, in the postwar era, international cricket had changed from his own heyday in the 1930s. It had, says Wilde, become much more tough and attritional, hence Robins's repeated calls for more attacking, brighter cricket were often inappropriate and doomed to failure. Nevertheless, in the view of Billy Griffith, the cricket administrator and long-serving secretary of the MCC, Robins's "tremendous enthusiasm and deep knowledge of the game and its history made him the complete cricketer". Robins's Middlesex colleague Ian Peebles, who succeeded him as county captain in 1939, described him as "the most enthusiastic and joyous cricketer I played with". Notes and references Notes Citations Sources Books and journals Online (republished from Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1930) (republished from Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1938) (republished from Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1969) Match cards External links 1906 births 1968 deaths Cambridge University cricketers England cricket team selectors England Test cricketers England Test cricket captains English cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 English footballers Middlesex cricket captains Nottingham Forest F.C. players People educated at Highgate School Wisden Cricketers of the Year Sportspeople from Stafford Gentlemen cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Sir Julien Cahn's XI cricketers Association footballers not categorized by position Free Foresters cricketers North v South cricketers Non-international England cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers Middlesex cricketers Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Royal Air Force squadron leaders Deaths from pneumonia in England Deaths from bronchopneumonia Military personnel from Staffordshire Marylebone Cricket Club Australian Touring Team cricketers