John Scaife
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Full name | John Willie Scaife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Haslingden, Lancashire, England | 14 November 1908||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 27 October 1995 Melbourne, Victoria | (aged 86)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1926-27 to 1935-36 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1936-37 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 28 April 2015 |
John Willie Scaife (14 November 1908 – 27 October 1995) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1927 to 1936.
At the age of 18, Scaife was one of five Victorians who made their first-class debuts against Tasmania in January 1927. Batting at number six he scored 46, added 106 for the fifth wicket with Norman Mitchell.[1]
One of the smallest first-class players in Australia at the time,[2] Scaife played the full six-game Sheffield Shield season in 1927-28, scoring 207 runs at an average of 34.50 in a season when his teammates Bill Ponsford and Bill Woodfull each averaged well over 100 with the bat and Victoria won the Shield.[3] He was one of the three emergencies named for Australia's tour of New Zealand at the end of the season, but was not required to play.[4]
He played in a trial match for an Australian XI against The Rest at the start of the 1928-29 season but was not successful.[5] He continued to play for Victoria with mixed success. He did not score his first century until 1933-34, when he made 120 and 80 to help Victoria draw the match after New South Wales had declared at 672 for 8 in their first innings.[6] His best season was 1935-36, when he made 573 runs at 52.09.[7]
He played his last first-class matches in 1936-37 for the Europeans team in the Bombay Quadrangular.[8]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Victoria v Tasmania 1926-27". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ The Argus, 24 December 1927, p. 13.
- ^ "Sheffield Shield 1927-28". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ Charlie Kelleway, "Introducing Ponsford, Kippax & Co.," New Zealand Truth, 2 February 1928, p. 1.
- ^ Wisden 1997, p. 1416.
- ^ "New South Wales v Victoria 1933-34". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ "John Scaife batting by season". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ "First-class matches played by John Scaife". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
External links[]
- John Scaife at Cricinfo
- John Scaife at CricketArchive
- 1908 births
- 1995 deaths
- Victoria cricketers
- People from Haslingden
- English emigrants to Australia
- Australian cricketers
- Europeans cricketers