Robert Cooke (25 May 1900 – 14 January 1957) was an English first-class cricketer who played in 15 matches for Warwickshire from 1925 to 1926.
[1] Born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, Cooke was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman.
In his second first-class match, the game against Kent at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells, in July 1925, he finished off the Kent first innings with a hat-trick of three wickets in three balls, in fact taking four wickets in five balls; later in the same match, he was himself part of a hat-trick taken by the Kent bowler Charlie Wright which finished off the Warwickshire second innings.
[2] Cooke's figures of five wickets for 22 runs in Kent's first innings were by some distance the best of his career, and in no other innings in a brief first-class career did he take more than two wickets.
[3] Cooke died at age 56 on 14 January 1957 in Bournbrook, Birmingham.