Bernard Nevile

Bernard Nevile
Cricket information
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Career statistics
Matches	6
Runs scored	65
Batting average	8.12
100s/50s	0/0
Top score	17*
Balls bowled	260
Wickets	7
Bowling average	21.28
5 wickets in innings	0
10 wickets in match	0
Best bowling	4/53
Catches/stumpings	1/–
	Source: Cricinfo, 7 November 2022

Captain Bernard Philip Nevile (1 August 1888 – 11 February 1916) was an English first-class cricketer who played five games for Worcestershire in 1913, and another for Free Foresters a year earlier. He also played for and captained^[1] Lincolnshire in the Minor Counties Championship.

Career

Born at Wellingore Hall, Lincolnshire, Nevile made his first-class debut in June 1912, playing for Free Foresters against Cambridge University, scoring 4 in his only innings and bowling a single over without reward. He attended Cambridge himself, not getting into the First XI, but gaining a blue for golf.^[1]

The following season he appeared five times for Worcestershire, but only twice made an impression. Against Kent in mid-July he took 3–29 in the first innings (his maiden wicket being that of opener Punter Humphreys); and against Surrey a fortnight later, in what proved to be his final game, he claimed a career-best 4-53.

Nevile joined the Army in World War I, and served in the Lincolnshire Regiment.^[1] He was killed near Ypres, Belgium at the age of just 27.^[2]

His brother Charles also played for Lincolnshire at minor counties level, but did not make a first-class appearance.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Deaths in the war, 1916, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1917
^ "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 4 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.

External links

Bernard Nevile at ESPNcricinfo

[Wisden-1] Deaths in the war, 1916, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1917

[2] "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 4 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.

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