Kenelm Lister-Kaye, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKenelm Lister-Kaye
English county cricketer
Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1892
Date of Death: 28-Feb-1955
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Kenelm Lister-Kaye
- Sir Kenelm Arthur Lister-Kaye, 5th Baronet (27 March 1892 – 28 February 1955) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played eight games for Oxford University in 1912, two matches for the Europeans in matches in India in 1920/21 and 1922/23, plus two games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1928.Born in Kensington, London, England, the second son of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet, Lister-Kaye was educated at Eton College where he played in Fowler's match in 1910.
- He then went up to Trinity College, Oxford.
- He was a rather wild left-arm swing bowler who narrowly missed his blue as a freshman in 1912.
- He played for the Yorkshire Second Eleven in 1913.
- For York C.C.
- in 1914, he took 7 for 19 runs against Hull C.C.
- and also had some successful days for the Yorkshire Gentlemen. Lister-Kaye played for Oxford in his second year, without winning a blue, and his games for Yorkshire came against the West Indies and Leicestershire.
- In all his first-class matches he took 37 wickets with his left arm medium pace, with a best of 7 for 117 for the "Europeans" against the Indians in Bombay.
- A right-handed batsman, he scored 149 runs at 11.46, with a best of 35 against the South Africans for Oxford.
- He also took eight catches in the field. Lister-Kaye served with the West Yorkshire Regiment during World War I.
- Afterwards he transferred to the Royal Air Force, from which he retired in 1924.
- His elder brother had died in infancy, so when his father died in 1931 he inherited the baronetcy.
- During World War II he returned to the RAF with the rank of squadron leader.Lister-Kaye died in February 1955, aged 62, in Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.
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