Tip Snooke

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Tip Snooke

Personal information

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

Right-arm fast-medium

International information

National side

South African

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	26	124
Runs scored	1008	4821
Batting average	22.39	25.91
100s/50s	1/5	7/24
Top score	103	187
Balls bowled	1620	6179
Wickets	35	120
Bowling average	20.05	25.14
5 wickets in innings	1	3
10 wickets in match	1	1
Best bowling	8/70	8/70
Catches/stumpings	24/-	82/-

Source: CricketArchive

Sibley John "Tip" Snooke (1 February 1881 - 14 August 1966) played Test cricket for South Africa as an all-rounder, captaining the side to victory 3-2 against England in a five-Test series in South Africa in 1909-10. He played in 26 Test matches, playing the first 23 between 1906 and 1912, and he was recalled aged 41 for three further Test matches against England in South Africa in 1922-23.

Snooke was born in St Mark's, Tembuland. He scored 1,008 Test runs at a batting average of 22.39, including one century against Australia at Adelaide in 1910-11, and took 35 Test wickets at a bowling average of 20.05, with best figures of 8/70 in an innings and 12/127 for a match, both against England at Johannesburg in 1905-06. Four years later against England at Cape Town, he dismissed two batsmen - Wilfred Rhodes and David Denton - in the very first over of a Test match, a feat that was not repeated until nearly ninety years later.

He played 124 first-class cricket matches for Border, Western Province and Transvaal, scoring 4,821 runs at an average of 25.91 and taking 120 wickets at an average of 25.14.

He died at Port Elizabeth, aged 85. His brother, Stanley Snooke, also played Test cricket for South Africa.

External links

Player profile from Cricinfo

v t e South Africa Test cricket captains

1888/89: Dunell 1888/89–1891/92: Milton 1895/96–1902/03: Haliwell 1895/96: Richards 1898/99: Bisset 1902/03: Taberer 1902/03: Anderson 1905/06–1910/11: Sherwell 1909/10: Snooke 1912: Mitchell 1912: Tancred 1913/14–1924: Taylor 1927/28–1930/31: Deane 1930/31: Nupen 1930/31–1931/32: Cameron 1935–1935/36: Wade 1938/39–1947: Melville 1948/49–1951: Nourse 1952/53–1955: Cheetham 1955; 1956/57; 1957/58; 1960–1961/62: McGlew 1956/57–1957/58: van Ryneveld 1963/64–1964/65: Goddard 1965–1966/67: van der Merwe 1969/70: Bacher 1991/92–1994: Wessels 1993/94; 1994/95–1999/00: Cronje 1997/98: Kirsten 2000/01–2002/03: Pollock 2001/02; 2002/03: Boucher 2003–: Smith 2005/06; 2008/09: Kallis 2006: Prince

Italics denote deputised captaincy

Persondata
Name	Snooke, Tip
Alternative names
Short description	South African cricketer
Date of birth	1 February 1881
Place of birth
Date of death	14 August 1966
Place of death

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