{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Patrick Oakden | image = Patrick Oakden.jpg | fullname = Robert Patrick Oakden | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|5|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|7|20|1938|5|9|df=yes}} | death_place = Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast-medium | role = Bowler
| club1 = Nottinghamshire | year1 = {{nowrap|1960–1961}}
| columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 8 | runs1 = 68 | bat avg1 = 9.71 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 24 | deliveries1 = 1,241 | wickets1 = 17 | bowl avg1 = 42.82 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 4/78 | catches/stumpings1 = 4/–
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18290.html ESPNcricinfo | date = 10 March | year = 2017 }}
'''Robert Patrick Oakden''' (9 May 1938 – 20 July 2011) was an English cricketer. Oakden was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and was educated at Newark Magnus Grammar School.<ref name="NOTTS">{{cite web|url=http://www.nottsccc.co.uk/yearbook/2012/files/assets/basic-html/page172.html|title=Obituaries – Nottinghamshire Cricket Annual 2012|work=Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|publisher=nottsccc.co.uk|page=172|accessdate=19 May 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230836/http://www.nottsccc.co.uk/yearbook/2012/files/assets/basic-html/page172.html|archivedate=3 March 2016}}</ref>
Oakden made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Lancashire in the 1960 County Championship. He made seven further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Hampshire in the 1961 County Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31771/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Patrick Oakden|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=19 May 2012}}</ref> In his eight first-class appearances for the county, he took 17 wickets at an average of 42.82, with best figures of 4/78.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31771/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Patrick Oakden|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=19 May 2012}}</ref> With the bat, he scored 68 runs at a batting average of 9.71, with a high score of 24.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31771/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Oakden|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=19 May 2012}}</ref>
Outside of cricket, Oakden completed his National Service in the Royal Navy, during which he had served aboard {{HMS|Bulwark|R08|6}}.<ref name="NOTTS"/> Following his first-class cricket career, Oakden played golf to a high standard, becoming the first person to represent Nottinghamshire at both cricket and golf since World War II.<ref name="NOTTS"/> He died at the town of his birth on 20 July 2011.
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==External links== *[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18290.html Patrick Oakden] at ESPNcricinfo *[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31771/31771.html Patrick Oakden] at CricketArchive
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