Robert Long (13 April 1932 – 11 February 2010) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 15 first-class matches for Otago between the 1953–54 season and 1963–64.Robert Long, CricInfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
Long was born at Ranfurly in Central Otago in 1932 and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 81. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played for Otago age-group sides as early as the 1949–50 season and made his representative debut in a February 1954 first-class match against the touring Fiji national cricket team at Carisbrook. He made his Plunket Shield debut in December 1960 and played in a total of 15 first-class matches for the provincial side, appearing in each season between 1960–61 and 1963–64. He scored a total of 567 runs and took seven first-class wickets.Bob Long, CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
As well as playing for Otago, Long played in the Hawke Cup for Central Otago. He worked as an accountant. He died at Auckland in 2010 at the age of 77.
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