Reginald Hands

Reginald Hands
Cricket information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style -
International information
National side
  • South African
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 1 7
Runs scored 7 289
Batting average 3.50 28.89
100s/50s 0 / 0 0 / 2
Top score 7 79*
Balls bowled 0 0
Wickets 0 0
Bowling average - -
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling - -
Catches/stumpings 0 / 0 7 / 0
Source: Cricinfo

Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands (26 July 1888 – 20 April 1918) was born in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa and died in France as a result of injuries sustained on the Western Front during the first Great War, aged just 29. He was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in February 1914. Not surprisingly given the period, his entire first-class cricket career lasted just 15 months in which time he played a few matches for Western Province in the Currie Cup (1912–13) and against the visiting M.C.C. led by J.W.H.T. Douglas (1913–14). During that English tour, Hands made his only Test appearance in the fifth match of the series, played at Port Elizabeth. A useful right-handed batsman, he scored 0 and 7 in a match won convincingly by the visitors by 10 wickets. He was dismissed stumped in both innings.[1] No mention of his representative appearance was made in his Wisden obituary, nor that his brother, P.A.M. Hands, also played in that same Test. Reginald Hands was a talented rugby forward and played two international matches for England in 1910 against France and Scotland. He (along with his two brothers, incidentally) had previously won his rugby Blue at Oxford University. A lawyer called to the Bar in 1911, he was awarded the 1914–15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal for his military service.

See also

References

  1. World Cricketers - A Biographical Dictionary by Christopher Martin-Jenkins published by Oxford University Press (1996)
  2. The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877–1977) compiled and edited by Bill Frindall published by Headline Book Publishing (1995)
  3. Who's Who of Cricketers by Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn & Peter Wynne-Thomas published by Hamlyn (1993)
  4. www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players
  5. The Complete Who's Who of England Rugby Union Internationals by Raymond Maule published by Breedon Books Publishing Company Ltd. (1992)
  1. ↑ Walmsley, Keith (2003). Mosts Without in Test Cricket. Reading, England: Keith Walmsley Publishing Pty Ltd. p. 457. ISBN 0947540067..