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Lieutenant-Colonel '''Claude Blake Rubie''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|ED}} (25 March 1888 – 3 November 1939) was an English [[amateur status in first-class cricket|amateur]] [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[cricket]]er and soldier.<br />
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Rubie was a right-handed [[batsman]] and [[wicketkeeper]]. He was a [[British Army]] Special Reserve [[Major (rank)|Major]] (later Lieut-Colonel) who saw long service in [[India]] and played for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] in the [[Bombay Quadrangular]] between 1919 and 1926. He played a prominent part in the development of cricket in the [[Karachi]] area, where he played most of his cricket.<ref>"Lt.-Col. C. B. Rubie", ''[[The Cricketer]]'' Annual 1939, p. 73.</ref> He captained three of the local teams that opposed the [[Marylebone Cricket Club cricket team in India in 1926–27|MCC on its tour of India in 1926–27]] before returning to England and representing [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] in four matches in 1930.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14483/First-Class_Matches.html CricketArchive – First-class matches played by Claude Rubie]. Retrieved on 10 March 2013.</ref> In 1928, with B. D. Shanker, he wrote ''A History of the Sind Cricket Tournament and Karachi Cricket in General''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cricket Sale |url=https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/cricket-sale/history-sind-cricket-tournament-karachi-cricket-karachi-edwin-forster-19/35694 |website=Christie's |access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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In recognition of his knowledge of Indian cricket, Rubie was appointed to manage the [[England national cricket team]]'s tour of India in 1939–40. The team was selected but the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] on 1 September 1939 caused its immediate cancellation.<ref>Caple, p.76.</ref> On 3 November that year, when the tour would have been under way, Rubie died of a heart attack after an operation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williamson |first1=Martin |title=The tour that never was |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/537461.html |work=ESPNcricinfo |date=22 October 2011 |access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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Rubie was born at [[Lewes]] and died at [[Hove]], both in [[Sussex]]. He made 10 first-class appearances, scoring 245 runs @ 24.50 with a highest innings of 84, his sole half-century. He held 16 catches and completed 7 stumpings to average more than two victims per match.<ref name="CA30">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14483/14483.html |website=CricketArchive |title=Claude Rubie |access-date=10 March 2013}}</ref><br />
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* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14483/14483.html Claude Rubie] at CricketArchive<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Caple |first=S. Canynge |title=England ''versus'' India: 1886 – 1959 |year=1959 |publisher=Littlebury & Co. Ltd |location=Worcester |asin=B001EN6QX2 |oclc=771366705}}<br />
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