Robert Julian Christiani (19 July 1920 – 4 January 2005) was a West Indian cricketer who played in 22 Tests from 1947–48 to 1953–54. At domestic level he played first-class cricket for British Guiana. Christiani played his first Test in January 1948, playing against England; it was the West Indies first match since 1939 due to the interruption of the Second World War and he was one of seven debutantes fielded by the West Indies. Christiani was dismissed on 99, and is one of just three players in the history of Test cricket to have been dismissed one short of a century on debut. Christiani made his maiden Test century later that year, in November when the West Indies toured India. He was one of four people to reach three figures in the West Indies innings, at the time equalling the record s