Robert Colchin (1713 – 1750) was an English cricketer and match organiser of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular.
[further explanation needed] Colchin was a noted single wicket player and took part in several big money contests.
Single wicket was the most lucrative form of cricket in the 1740s; for example in 1748, Colchin and Thomas Waymark played two doubles matches against Tom Faulkner and Joe Harris at the Artillery Ground.
132, dated 1746): "his greatest excellence is cricket-playing, in which he is reckoned as good a bat as either of (Little or Tall Bennett); and is at length arrived at the supreme dignity of being distinguished among his brethren of the wicket by the title of Long Robin".
The article also said Colchin's favourite amusement was attending the executions at Tyburn and that, whereas he had been "born and bred a gentleman, (he) has taken great pains to degrade himself, and is now as complete a blackguard as those whom he has chosen for his companions".