Karl Nunes

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = West Indian
country = West Indies
country abbrev = WI
name = Karl Nunes
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Left hand bat
bowling style = Wicketkeeper
tests = 4
test runs = 245
test bat avg = 30.62
test 100s/50s = 0/2
test top score = 92
test balls = -
test wickets = -
test bowl avg = -
test 5s = -
test 10s = -
test best bowling = -/-
test catches/stumpings = 2/0
FCs = 61
FC runs = 2,695
FC bat avg = 31.33
FC 100s/50s = 6/11
FC top score = 200*
FC balls = 126
FC wickets = 3
FC bowl avg = 27.66
FC 5s = 0
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 2/49
FC catches/stumpings = 31/8
debut date =23 June
debut year = 1928
last date =3 April
last year = 1930
source = http://content.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52635.html

Robert Karl Nunes (June 7, 1894-July 23, 1958) was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England as wicketkeeper and captain.

Nunes was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but educated in England at Dulwich College. He toured England with the 1923 West Indian side that won 12 matches; he was vice-captain and second-string wicketkeeper, and the tour was his first taste of first-class cricket.

In the mid-1920s, he captained Jamaica in matches against Barbados, MCC and a touring side led by Lionel Tennyson. He scored two centuries against Tennyson's side, including his personal best of 200 not out. He was a leading light in the Jamaican cricket board of control from its establishment in 1926.

On the 1928 tour, having kept wicket only intermittently across his first-class career, he was the main wicketkeeper, and he moved down the batting order from his customary position as an opener to bat mainly in middle order. He had limited success in the Tests, with a highest of just 37, and fared only a little better in other first-class matches, with a single century against Glamorgan.

After this tour, he played only in Jamaica, though this also included an appearance in the Kingston Test match of the England tour of 1929-30. In this match, the final game of a four-Test series, Nunes was again captain but, freed from the responsibility of wicketkeeping, opened the innings. In a theoretically timeless Test that ended as a draw after eight days, England made 849, then the highest Test score, with 325 for Andrew Sandham. Nunes top-scored with 66 in the West Indies response of 286 and then made 92 in the second innings after England did not enforce the follow-on, putting on 227 for the second wicket with George Headley, who went on to make 223. This was Nunes' last Test appearance.

He died in London at the age of 64.

External links

*cricinfo|ref=westindies/content/player/52635.html

References

* Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1924, 1929, 1931 and 1959 editions.