Basil Grieve: Difference between revisions

{{short description|English cricketer (1864–1917)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2022}}

| name = Basil Grieve

| image =

| caption =

| country = England

| full_name = Basil Arthur Firebrace Grieve

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1864|05|28|df=yes}}

| birth_place = [[Kilburn, London|Kilburn]], [[Middlesex]]

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1917|11|19|1864|05|28|df=yes}}

| death_place = [[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]]

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium

| international = true

| testdebutdate = 12 March

| testdebutyear = 1889

| testdebutagainst = South Africa

| testcap = 64

| lasttestdate = 26 March

| lasttestyear = 1889

| lasttestagainst = South Africa

| columns = 2

| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 40

| top score1 = 14[[not out|*]]

| bat avg1 = 40.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–

| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]

| matches2 = 2

| runs2 = 40

| top score2 = 14[[not out|*]]

| bat avg2 = 40.00

| 100s/50s2 = 0/0

| catches/stumpings2 = 0/–

| date = 11 October

| year = 2022

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/119/119.html CricketArchive

'''Basil Arthur Firebrace Grieve''' (28 May 1864 – 19 November 1917)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wisden.com/players/basil-grieve |title=Basil Grieve |work=Wisden Online |access-date=11 October 2022}}</ref> was an English [[Amateur status in first-class cricket|amateur cricketer]] who played in two retrospectively-recognised [[Test cricket|Test matches]] for [[England cricket team|England]] in 1899. Those were his only [[first-class cricket|first-class appearances]] and he was never a member of any [[county cricket|county team]]. He was born in [[Kilburn, London|Kilburn]], [[Middlesex]], and died in [[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]].

Grieve was a right-handed [[batting (cricket)|batsman]] and a right-arm [[fast bowling|fast medium bowler]] with an [[underarm bowling|underarm action]].<ref name="C20471">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1889/81/index.html "The English Cricketers in South Africa"], ''Cricket'', issue 204, 25 April 1889, p. 71.</ref> He was educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad |id=GRV883BA |name=Grieve, Basil Arthur Firebrace}}</ref> He became a wine merchant by trade.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--notstated--> |title=Wills and Bequests |url=https://link-gale-com.ezproxy4.lib.le.ac.uk/apps/doc/IO0709016532/TGRH?u=leicester&sid=bookmark-TGRH&xid=cf1036bb |work=Daily Telegraph |issue=19718 |page=3 |location=London |date=24 June 1918 |access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref> He played cricket at school and took part in the [[Eton College|Eton]] v Harrow match at [[Lord's]] in 1883. He became a member of [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] in 1885.<ref name="WBGOB">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229822.html |title=Other Deaths in 1917 |work=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |year=1918 |access-date=11 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="CMJ250">{{cite book |last=Martin-Jenkins |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Martin-Jenkins |title=World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1996 |page=250 |isbn=978-0-19-210005-4}}</ref>

==Tour of South Africa, 1888–89==

In 1888, [[Donald Currie|Sir Donald Currie]] agreed to sponsor the first [[English cricket team in South Africa in 1888–89|English cricket team to visit South Africa]].<ref name="C198449">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1888/481/index.html "The English team for the Cape"], ''Cricket'', issue 198, 29 November 1888, p. 449.</ref> The 15-man tour party included only nine players who were registered with county clubs and had played in first-class matches. Grieve was one of six additional players who made the numbers up. The team was called Major Warton's XI after its manager, [[Robert Warton (umpire)|Major R. G. Warton]], another occasional player. The [[captain (cricket)|captain]] was future Hollywood actor [[C. Aubrey Smith]], who was then the captain of [[Sussex County Cricket Club]].<ref name="C2001">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1889/7/index.html "The English team in South Africa"], ''Cricket'', issue 200, 25 April 1889, p. 1.</ref>

Only two matches, both against a team called the South African XI, were eleven-a-side. These were subsequently recognised as the first [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]] v [[England cricket team|England]] Test matches. They were played at the [[St George's Oval]] in [[Port Elizabeth]] and the [[Newlands Cricket Ground]] in [[Cape Town]]; England won both convincingly. [[Harry Altham]] said the standard of the England team was "about that of a weak county".<ref name="HSA294">{{cite book |last=Altham |first=H. S. |author-link=Harry Altham |title=A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) |year=1962 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |location=London |page=294}}</ref> Grieve took part in both matches and in three [[innings]], twice [[not out]], scored a total of 40 runs with a best score of 14*. He did not bowl.<ref name="DH144">{{cite book |last=Hayes |first=Dean |title=England: The Cricket Facts |publisher=Michael O'Mara Books |location=London |year=2006 |page=144 |isbn=978-18-43172-15-4}}</ref> Grieve remained in South Africa for a time after the tour ended and is known to have travelled to [[Johannesburg]] with his colleague [[Monty Bowden]].<ref name="C20471"/>

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