deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 312 27 november 1984 1 185/53 1920 -- 1926 1928 -- 1937 2008 24 november 1899 0 england bridport , dorset , england warwickshire worcestershire 0 right-handed bernard quaife bernard william quaife olton , solihull , warwickshire , england fc wicket-keeper http://cricketarchive.co.uk/archive/players/32/32215/32215.html 1899 11 24 yes 9,594 9 3/35 319 bernard quaife

bernard quaife

bernard william quaife -lrb- 24 november 1899 -- 27 november 1984 -rrb- was an english cricketer who played more than 300 first-class matches between the wars .
he played first for warwickshire , but later found much more success at worcestershire , where -lrb- unlike at his original county -rrb- he became the usual wicket-keeper .
he was the son of england test player willie quaife .
quaife made his first-class debut for warwickshire against somerset at bath 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 derbyshire : billy bestwick and his son robert bowled for derbyshire against willie quaife and `` his '' son bernard .
he had a better year in 1923 , playing regularly and almost making a maiden hundred against northamptonshire : he was 99 not out 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 william fox 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 edgbaston , and after 1926 he left warwickshire .
quaife played not at all in 1927 , making his worcestershire debut the following june against sussex and hitting 77 not out in the first innings .
he ended the year with over 900 first-class runs at a little under 26 , including his long-awaited first century : 136 not out versus glamorgan 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 stand in two other matches in 1928 .
from 1929 until the end of his career in 1937 , quaife was a regular in the worcestershire side .
his batting , said his `` wisden '' 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 middlesex in 1931 , sharing a fourth-wicket stand of 277 with harold gibbons -lrb- 183 -rrb- ; he also struck 109 versus leicestershire in 1935 .
by 1937 , syd buller 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 charles lyttelton for most of the summer .
apart from his test-playing father , quaife had one other notable cricketing relative : his uncle , walter quaife , played over 200 first-class games , mainly for sussex and warwickshire , between 1884 and 1901 .
