Background
Robinson is also the step-son of Paul Farbrace.
Robinson is also the step-son of Paul Farbrace.
He finished the 2013 season with 59 wickets and 1282 runs in Second XI cricket, and also made his first-team List A debut for Yorkshire in July 2013 against Leicestershire.
He is a right-arm medium pace bowler, and a right-handed batsman. Robinson began his career playing for Kent Second XI. After one match of the 2013 season, he left Kent for Leicestershire, before playing for Yorkshire Second XI. In October 2013, Robinson signed a professional contract with Yorkshire.
In July 2014, Robinson, was sacked by Yorkshire for "unprofessional actions". In the 2014 season, he had made 7 T20 Blast appearances for Yorkshire, taking 6 wickets.
Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie said of the situation that "When a player consistently displays behaviour that isn’t professional, there has to be a point in time when you say ‘look, this isn’t really working, you’re obviously not that bothered about playing for the club’.
That point came, and it was tough." and that "He’s got to learn about his game and about being a professional sportsman. I think there will be a future for him in the professional game, but I think he needs to learn a lot, and I think he can do lieutenant" Later in the 2014 season, Robinson made 1 List A appearance for Hampshire. In April 2015, Sussex signed Robinson on a short-term deal, after an injury crisis with bowlers Tymal Mills, James Anyon and Lewis Hatchett all unavailable.
Robinson had played a Second XI match for Sussex, and was named in the squad for a County Championship match the next day against Durham, where he made his first-class debut.
In doing so, he became the first Sussex player in 95 years to score a century on a County Championship debut. Robinson took his first five-wicket haul, and as of January 2016 his best bowling figures, in May 2015 against Warwickshire.
In October 2015, Robinson signed a new three-year contract with Sussex.