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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Charles Provis
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Charles G. Provis
| birth_date = 1885
| birth_place = [[Camborne]], [[Cornwall]], England
| death_date = Unknown
| death_place =
| batting =
| bowling =
| role =
| family =
| international =
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans (India)]]
| year2 = 1922/23
| club1 = [[Cornwall County Cricket Club|Cornwall]]
| year1 = 1906
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 0
| bat avg1 = 0.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 0
| deliveries1 = 84
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 16.00
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/32
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 6 April
| year = 2012
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/32480.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Charles G. Provis''' (1885 – date of death unknown) was an English [[cricket]]er. Provis' [[batting (cricket)|batting]] and [[bowling (cricket)|bowling]] styles are unknown. He was born at [[Camborne]], [[Cornwall]].

Provis made two appearances in the 1906 [[Minor Counties Championship]] for [[Cornwall County Cricket Club|Cornwall]] against [[Dorset County Cricket Club|Dorset]] and [[Berkshire County Cricket Club|Berkshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14375/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Charles Provis|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=6 April 2013}}</ref>

He later worked for the [[Kolar Gold Fields]] and made a single [[first-class cricket|first-class]] appearance when in the [[British Raj]] for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] in 1923.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14375/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Provis|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=6 April 2013}}</ref> The Europeans won the toss and elected to bat first, making 104 all out, during which Provis was dismissed for a [[duck (cricket)|duck]] by [[Rama Krishnappa]]. In the Indians first-innings of 161 all out, Provis took the wickets of [[M. Venkataramanjulu]] and [[T. Bangarababu]] to finish with figures of 2/32 from fourteen [[over (cricket)|overs]]. The Europeans then made 67 all out in their second-innings, with Provis again dismissed for a duck, this time by [[C. R. Ganapathy]]. The Indians won the match by ten wickets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10678.html|title=Europeans v Indians, 1922/23|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=6 April 2013}}</ref>

He married Bertha Marks in 1923. She died in 1936 in Brazil, where he worked for a gold mining company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Camborne Lady's Death in Brazil. Mrs. Charles Provis. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000331/19360123/101/0010 |access-date=15 April 2024 |work=Cornishman |date=23 January 1936 |page=10}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=32480}}

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[[Category:1885 births]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Camborne]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Cornwall cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Year of death missing]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Cornwall]]
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]

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