Nigel Capel-Cure
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| Full name | George Nigel Capel Cure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 September 1908 Leg-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1929 | Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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George Nigel Capel-Cure
Capel Cure was born in
Capel Cure played just one game for Essex, in the 1929 season, of a drawn match against his alma mater Cambridge University.[3] Batting at number four,[3] Capel Cure was trapped leg-before wicket by Trevil Morgan in his first innings for a duck,[3] and scored just six runs in the second innings before being caught and bowled by Gordon Chandler.[3]
Bowling, he took 2–58 in the Essex first innings;[3] his wickets were of Tom Killick[3] (lbw, but only after he'd scored a double century) and George Kemp-Welch[3] (also lbw) in the Cambridge 1st innings. Cambridge did not complete their 2nd innings.[3]
Capel Cure's brother-in-law was
Capel Cure was a landowner in Shropshire and Essex. He received the Territorial Decoration.[1] He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1951–52[1] and deputy lord-lieutenant of the county from 1958 to 1978.[1] He lived at Blake Hall, near Ongar.[1] He died in Harlow.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g ‘CAPEL CURE, (George) Nigel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 2 March 2012
- ^ a b c d "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.
External links
- Nigel Capel-Cure at Cricket Archive
