Joe Vine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joe Vine

Cricket player of England.

Date of Birth: 15-May-1875

Place of Birth: Willingdon and Jevington, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Apr-1946

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Joe Vine

  • Joseph Vine (15 May 1875 – 25 April 1946) was a professional cricketer, who played his first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and London County.
  • Vine also played two Test matches for England and was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1906. Vine's cricket career was not one of a rapid rise to fame.
  • Although he played his first first-class match in 1896, it was not until 1900, after some tentative appearances in the three previous seasons, that he earned a regular place in the Sussex eleven.
  • After that, however, he was indispensable.
  • He was essentially a county cricketer, nearly all his work having been done for Sussex, but if, in addition to his batting and fielding, he had managed to retain his skill as a leg-break bowler it is quite likely that he would have played for England before he played his two Test matches in 1911/2.
  • Already a dependable player, he made a great advance as a batsman in 1904 and during 1905 he was better than he had ever been before, scoring for Sussex in county matches alone over sixteen hundred runs.
  • Good as his position is he would probably have been thought still more of if he had belonged to another county.
  • A batsman would need to be great indeed to play on the same side as Ranjitsinhji and C.B.
  • Fry, and not be overshadowed.
  • His success as a batsman was largely gained in a series of first-wicket partnerships with Fry, and though he may at times carry caution a little too far and keep an undue check on his hitting powers, the result is nearly always so satisfactory that it would be sheer hypercriticism to find fault with him.
  • As an outfield Vine has not the wonderful pick-up of Denton, but in every other respect was in the highest class, and in the course of a season at the beginning of the twentieth century, perhaps no one saved a larger number of runs.
  • In total Vine played 547 first-class matches, which included 421 consecutive appearances for Sussex.
  • Soon after retiring from county cricket Joe Vine became coach at Brighton College, an office he held for many years.
  • He died aged 70 in 1946.

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