| Kenneth Cave | |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Fullname: | Kenneth Holmes Cave |
| Birth Date: | 25 February 1874 |
| Birth Place: | Sunderland, England |
| Death Place: | Wanganui, New Zealand |
| Umpire: | true |
| Testsumpired: | 6 |
| Umptestdebutyr: | 1930 |
| Umptestlastyr: | 1933 |
| Date: | 2 July |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36805.html Cricinfo |
Kenneth Holmes Cave (25 February 1874 - 19 May 1944) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in six Test matches between 1930 and 1933.[1] [2]
Ken Cave was a member of a large family of cricketers in the Whanganui area.[3] A middle-order batsman, he played for Whanganui teams from the late 1890s till the mid-1920s, and was one of their leading batsmen when they held the Hawke Cup in 1914-15 and 1925–26.[4]
He became an umpire in the Whanganui area in the 1920s. Without having umpired a first-class match, but with the support of the English touring team, he was chosen to umpire all four matches in New Zealand's first Test series, against England in 1929-30.[5] [6] He also umpired two of New Zealand's other four home Tests in the 1930s.
Cave's nephew Harry Cave captained the New Zealand Test team in the 1950s.