Willie Quaife
Newhaven, Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 13 October 1951 (aged 79) Edgbaston, Birmingham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Legbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Test debut | 29 June 1899 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 28 February 1902 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: CricInfo, 6 November 2022 |
William George Quaife (17 March 1872 – 13 October 1951) was a
Biography
A diminutive right-handed batsman with a strong defence, Quaife played one match for Sussex before moving, with his older brother
Quaife made only seven Test match appearances, starting with two matches against the Australians in 1899, and then featuring in all five games on the 1901–02 tour to Australia under Archie MacLaren. He met with little success, except at Adelaide, where he scored 68 and 44 in the third Test.
Quaife also played for
In his playing career, Quaife was usually listed as "W.G.Quaife" and Wisden lists him as "William George Quaife" in its obituary in 1952. The middle initial (or name) appears, however, to have been acquired merely to differentiate him from his brother, Walter, who was eight years his senior and an established Sussex cricketer before moving with William to Warwickshire, where he played until 1901.
Quaife played with his son Bernard twenty times in first-class matches. On one occasion, for Warwickshire against Derbyshire at Derby in 1922, the Quaifes played against the father-son combination of Billy Bestwick and Robert Bestwick.[3] The Smart brothers Jack and Cyril also played for Warwickshire in this match.[4]
After retirement, Quaife became a cricket bat manufacturer.
References
- ^ "Was Fakhar Zaman's 193 the highest score by a batsman in a losing cause in an ODI?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Fawad Alam has converted all his four Test fifties into hundreds. Is this a record?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "History of Derbyshire cricket". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. 1953. Retrieved 4 April 2024 – via ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "Derbyshire v Warwickshire, County Ground, Derby on 3rd, 5th June 1922". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
External links
- Media related to Willie Quaife at Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Quaife at ESPNcricinfo