James Neblett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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West Indian cricketer
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Place of Birth: Barbados
About James Neblett
- James Montague Neblett (13 November 1901 - 28 March 1959) was a cricketer who played one Test match for West Indies in 1935. Born in Taylor’s Land, St.
- Michael in Barbados, Neblett was a middle-order batsman and a leg-break bowler who spent his domestic career playing for British Guiana during the 1920s and 1930s.
- His first three first-class matches were all played against the touring M.C.C.
- at Bourda, Georgetown in February, 1926.
- He performed moderately well, for whilst he did nothing of note with the bat, he took three wickets in each match for a total of 216 runs.
- Neblett toured England with the West Indies in 1928 under the captaincy of R.K.
- Nunes, the first official Caribbean tour to this country, but only played in eight of the first-class matches, none of which were in the three-match Test series.
- Against Cambridge University Cricket Club in a match played at Fenner's, he surpassed his previous top score of 59 when scoring 61 in West Indies’ first innings.
- But on no other occasion in his career did he go past fifty runs in an innings.
- After a five-year break from senior cricket, Neblett's sole Test appearance was due to West Indies’ policy of playing ‘home’ players in an effort to keep expenses down.
- Playing against an England XI led by R.E.S.
- Wyatt at Bourda in February 1935, Neblett scored 11 not out and five, and took 1/75 with the ball.
- Neblett also once represented a "Barbados-born" team against the rest of West Indies, where he recorded his best bowling figures of four wickets for 82 runs (4/82).
- Neblett died in Mackenzie, British Guiana, aged 57.
- Oddly, he did not receive an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
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