He played a total of 425 first-class matches, scoring 27,571 runs at an average of 42.15, and amassing 63 centuries. Robinson continued to play county cricket until 1999. Before the game had concluded, it was announced that Robinson was in a proposed party of sixteen players to join that coming winter's rebel tour to South Africa. Robinson played in his final Test match against Australia at Old Trafford in 1989. England did not tour in 1988–89, due to a row between the Indian and English cricket boards over Graham Gooch's South African connections. By now, it was apparent that his temperament for facing short pitched fast bowling had waned. He played one undistinguished Test match against Sri Lanka at the end of the 1988 English summer, where his inability against pace bowling was evident, as he was bounced out by Sri Lanka's medium pace attack. In Australia for the Bicentennial Test at Sydney, Robinson was again found out for his inability to handle short balls that he could not hook, when Tony Dodemaide dismissed him. It was a disappointing season for Robinson, whose World Cup is probably most memorable for being out lbw first ball to Craig McDermott in the final. He toured with England in 1987–88 playing in the 1987 Cricket World Cup and tours of Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand. Robinson returned to form with 166 against Pakistan the following year. However, he was found out, as were many other England batsmen, by the West Indies pace attack in the 1985–86 series, when he managed just 72 runs in eight innings.
He made a promising start to his England career, with 160 in the second Test in 1984–85 against India in Delhi, and two big centuries against Australia in the 1985 Ashes series. Robinson was an opener who modelled his batting style upon Geoff Boycott's.
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