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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Rupert Kettle<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| country = <br />
| fullname = Rupert Francis Kettle<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|2|16|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], England<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1985|12|11|1915|2|16}}<br />
| death_place = [[Surrey]], England<br />
| batting = <br />
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| family = <br />
| club1 = [[Assam cricket team|Assam]]<br />
| year1 = 1944-45 to 1950-51<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 3 <br />
| runs1 = 133<br />
| bat avg1 = 33.25<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 1/0<br />
| top score1 = 106 not out<br />
| deliveries1 = 150<br />
| wickets1 = 2<br />
| bowl avg1 = 68.50<br />
| fivefor1 = 0<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 2/51<br />
| catches/stumpings1= 1/–<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/30259.html Cricinfo<br />
| date = 21 July 2018<br />
}} <br />
'''Rupert Francis Kettle''' (16 February 1915 – 11 December 1985) was an English cricketer who played three matches of [[first-class cricket]] in India between 1944 and 1951. He was the first [[captain (cricket)|captain]] and the first [[Century (cricket)|century]]-maker for [[Assam cricket team|Assam]].<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Born in [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], Rupert Kettle served in the [[Gloucestershire Regiment]] in the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite news| work=London Gazette | accessdate=21 July 2018| title=Gloster R.|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35121/supplement/1890/data.pdf|date=1 April 1941}}</ref> While stationed in India in 1944 he played a first-class match, staged in aid of the [[Red Cross]] Fund, for a Services XI that included several English first-class cricketers and three [[Test cricket|Test]] cricketers.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1944-45/IND_LOCAL/OTHERS/SVCS-XI_BENG-GOV-XI_16-18DEC1944.html | title = Services XI v Bengal Governor's XI 1944-45 | publisher = Cricinfo | accessdate =21 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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He spent several years in [[Assam]] after the war, working as a tea broker.<ref>{{cite web |title=UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/2997/images/41039_b001877-00165 |website=Ancestry |access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref> He [[captain (cricket)|captained]] [[Assam cricket team|Assam's cricket team]] in their debut season in the [[Ranji Trophy]] in 1948-49, when they played one match, losing by an innings to [[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1948-49/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/ASSAM_U-PROV_RJI_17-19DEC1948.html | title = Assam v United Provinces 1948-49 | publisher = Cricinfo | accessdate =21 July 2018}}</ref> In his second and final match for Assam, which was Assam's third first-class match, two seasons later, he scored Assam's first first-class century. Going to the wicket in the first innings with the score at 15 for 6, he made 106 [[not out]] in a team total of 175, adding 79 in a last-wicket partnership. Assam nevertheless lost by an innings again.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1950-51/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/UP_ASSAM_RJI_06-08JAN1951.html | title = Uttar Pradesh v Assam 1950-51 | publisher = Cricinfo | accessdate =21 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cricinfo|id=30259}}<br />
* {{cricketarchive|id=13836}}<br />
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[[Category:1915 births]]<br />
[[Category:1985 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]<br />
[[Category:English cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Sportspeople from Worcester, England]]<br />
[[Category:Assam cricketers]]</div>->Sammyrice