Claude Rubie

Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Blake Rubie CBE ED (25 March 1888 – 3 November 1939) was an English amateur first-class cricketer and soldier.

He was a British Army Special Reserve Major (later Lieut-Colonel) who saw long service in India and played for the Europeans in the Bombay Quadrangular between 1919 and 1926.

[1] He captained three of the local teams that opposed the MCC on its tour of India in 1926–27 before returning to England and representing Sussex in four matches in 1930.

[4] On 3 November that year, when the tour would have been under way, Rubie died of a heart attack after an operation.

He made 10 first-class appearances, scoring 245 runs @ 24.50 with a highest innings of 84, his sole half-century.