John Keene (cricketer)

Evelyn Martin

Cricket information
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Left-arm slow-medium
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 27 Runs scored 115 Batting average 4.60 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 12 Balls bowled 3,453 Wickets 66 Bowling average 23.93 5 wickets in innings 5 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 6/22 Catches/stumpings 12/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 October 2022

John William Keene (25 April 1873 – 3 January 1931) was an English

in 1912.

Having already made a number of appearances for Surrey Second XI, Keene's first-class debut for the county came against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in June 1897: he took 3–61 in the first innings, his maiden victim being Walter Quaife. He also played against Sussex at the end of the summer, but despite playing more games for the Second XI in subsequent seasons, those two appearances in 1897 were the sum total of his first-class career for Surrey.

Keene reappeared in county cricket in 1903, when he played 13 times for Worcestershire, and collected a season's best aggregate of 36 wickets at an average of 17.88. This included an outstanding performance against Leicestershire at Leicester, when he took 6-22 (his career best) in the first innings and 5–16 in the second; Worcestershire defeated their opponents by an innings and 110 runs. Earlier that summer he had bowled unchanged throughout Warwickshire's first innings with Ted Arnold: both men recorded figures of 5/44.^[1]

He played seven games in 1904, taking 6–81 against

in July 1907; his 17 wicketless overs went for 94.

Keene was born in Southwark, London; he died at the age of 57 in Crichton, Midlothian, Scotland.

References

External links

• John Keene at ESPNcricinfo