Robert Zadow

Robert Zadow (born January 17 1955) is a first-class South Australian cricketer.

Zadow was born in Adelaide and moved to England in 1976 to play as an overseas amateur for Flowery Field Cricket Club in the Saddleworth and District League. He made a great impression scoring over 1000 runs despite missing the first six and last six games of the season. In 1977 he returned to Flowery Field Cricket Club this time as a professional.

From 1979/80 he started to play regular first-class cricket for South Australia moving on to captain the side. In 32 matches he scored 1472 runs at an average of 26.28. His best innings was probably a century against the touring Indian side captained by Kapil Dev and at that time he was being mentioned in the Australian press as a possible Test candidate.

This was not to be and after retirement from state cricket he went on to play for many years for his Adelaide grade club, Tea Tree Gully CC, where he became the highest run-scorer in South Australian grade cricket history.

He remained a great supporter of South Australian cricket and was for many years recently a state selector.

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