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Bernard Quaife

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at the start of August. Quaife captained Worcestershire for the first time in this game, as he was to do frequently later in his career. He was not at this point the regular wicket-keeper. That position did not fall to him until 1929, there then being no keeper already in the side, though he did
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had taken over behind the stumps for Worcestershire, and Quaife was coming under pressure from other, younger players. He retired at the end of the season, although he acted as captain for a large number of games in the absence through illness of usual captain
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obituarist, was "solid and consistent rather than brilliant", but he still managed to pass a thousand runs for the season on two occasions, in 1933 and 1935, and to score two further hundreds. He made 107 against
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in June 1920; he scored 11 and 20. He played off and on for the next couple of years, though made no significant scores. One remarkable incident occurred in 1922, when Warwickshire played
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in the first innings when he ran out of partners. He also took the first of his small haul of wickets when he dismissed Worcestershire's
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in late May. However, this season was to be a one-off: the 704 runs he made easily exceeded the aggregate from his other six summers at
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From 1929 until the end of his career in 1937, Quaife was a regular in the Worcestershire side. His batting, said his
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Apart from his Test-playing father, Quaife had one other notable cricketing relative: his uncle,
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and hitting 77 not out in the first innings. He ended the year with over 900 first-class runs
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Quaife played not at all in 1927, making his Worcestershire debut the following June against
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He had a better year in 1923, playing regularly and almost making a maiden hundred against
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He made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against
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Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
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Index

Olton
Solihull
Bridport
wicket-keeper
Warwickshire
Worcestershire
FC
Batting average
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Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings

first-class cricketer
between the wars
Warwickshire
Worcestershire
wicket-keeper
England
Test
Willie Quaife
Solihull School
Somerset
Bath
Derbyshire
Billy Bestwick
Robert
Northamptonshire

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