Robert Arthur Lawson (born 14 September 1974) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played for Otago between the 1992–93 and 2003–04 seasons.Robbie Lawson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
Lawson was born at Dunedin in Otago in 1974Robbie Lawson, CricInfo. Retrieved 10 November 2023. and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 79. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)Pratley G (2018) Old Boys' Annual Cricket Fixture, Otago Boys' High School, 21 March 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2023. A right-handed batsman who occasionally bowled off breaks, he played more than 160 top-level matches, almost all of them for Otago.
After playing age-group cricket for Otago in 1991–92, Lawson made his senior representative debut in a Plunket Shield match against Central Districts at Masterton in December 1992. He played for the New Zealand national under-19 cricket team in early 1993, for a New Zealand Emerging Players side during the following season and went on to play for the New Zealand Academy and for New Zealand A but was never capped internationally. He captained Otago and scored over 5,500 top-class runs during his career. He later served in the board of the Otago Cricket Association for nine years and was made a life member of the association in 2023.Two life memebrships awarded at 147th Otago Cricket Annual general Meeting, Otago Cricket Association, 26 October 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
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