Lionel Smythe D'Ade (c. 1875 in
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
– unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first
West Indian
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). For more than 100 years the words ''West Indian'' specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it ...
touring side to England in 1900.
Biography
He made his debut in important matches for Trinidad against British Guiana in the
1895-96 Inter-Colonial Tournament
The Inter-Colonial Tournament was the main first class cricket competition in the West Indies held between 1892-93 and 1938-39.
Competing teams
* Barbados
* British Guiana
* Trinidad
In the early tournaments British Guiana were sometimes r ...
. In
1896-97 he played for Trinidad against both
Lord Hawke's team and
Priestley's side as well as representing the combined West Indies against Priestley's XI. He impressed with 55 against Lord Hawke and then 140* against Priestley, an innings in which he went in at 7-1 and took the score from 148-8 and 178-9 to 284 all out with help from
Float Woods and Stephen Rudder.
He was described before the 1900 tour as "Not now up to his usual form; steady bat and good field". However he "did little or nothing until the very end of the tour".
[Wisden, 1901 page xcvii] He played just twice in the first ten games scoring only 10 runs. His one substantial innings was 68* in the very last match against Norfolk.
Returning from the 1900 tour to England he played a number of matches for Trinidad and was chosen for the combined West Indies team against
Bennett's side in
1901-02 but scored just 0 and 9. His final first class matches were for Trinidad against a weak Jamaica side in
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
. He was never able to repeat the impressive performances of 1896-97.
References
External links
CricketArchive stats
1875 births
Pre-1928 West Indies cricketers
Trinidad and Tobago cricketers
Year of death missing
Place of birth missing
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