Bernard Nevile
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| Batting style | unknown |
| Bowling type | Right arm fast |
| First-class record | |
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| 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 | 1/0 |
| First class debut: 10 June 1912 Last first class game: 26 July 1913 Source: Cricinfo |
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Captain Bernard Philip Nevile (1 August 1888 - 11 February 1916) was an English cricketer who played five first-class 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.
[edit] 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.
His brother Charles also played for Lincolnshire at minor counties level, but did not make a first-class appearance.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Deaths in the war, 1916, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1917
