deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting image name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
0 39,307 2 0/0 242/0 1912 0 3 leg-break english 0 27 right-hand bat 1196146 joe vine.jpg joe vine 1912 tests first-class true 9 february http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/0/343/343.html 9 february 46 25,171 1912 0 685 1 march 0/0 34/142 2 547 joe vine

joe vine

joseph -lrb- joe -rrb- vine -lrb- 15 may 1875 in willingdon , sussex , england -- 25 april 1946 in aldrington , hove , sussex , england -rrb- was a professional cricketer , who played his first-class cricket for sussex county cricket club and london county .
vine also played two test matches for england and was named as one of the five wisden cricketers of the year in 1906 .
vine 's cricket career was not one of a rapid rise to fame .
although he played his first first-class match in 1896 , it was not until 1900 , after some tentative appearances in the three previous seasons , that he earned a regular place in the sussex eleven .
after that , however , he was indispensable .
he was essentially a county cricketer , nearly all his work having been done for sussex , but if , in addition to his batting and fielding , he had managed to retain his skill as a leg-break bowler it is quite likely that he would have played for england before he played his two test matches in 1911/2 .
already a dependable player , he made a great advance as a batsman in 1904 and during 1905 he was better than he had ever been before , scoring for sussex in county matches alone over sixteen hundred runs .
good as his position is he would probably have been thought still more of if he had belonged to another county .
a batsman would need to be great indeed to play on the same side as ranjitsinhji and c.b. fry , and not be overshadowed .
his success as a batsman was largely gained in a series of first-wicket partnerships with fry , and though he may at times carry caution a little too far and keep an undue check on his hitting powers , the result is nearly always so satisfactory that it would be sheer hypercriticism to find fault with him .
as an outfield vine has not the wonderful pick-up of denton , but in every other respect was in the highest class , and in the course of a season at the beginning of the twentieth century , perhaps no one saved a larger number of runs .
in total vine played 547 first-class matches , which included 421 consecutive appearances for sussex .
soon after retiring from county cricket joe vine became coach at brighton college , an office he held for many years .
he died aged 70 in 1946 .
