Early the following year he made his debut for Bengal against Central Provinces and Berar in the Ranji Trophy.
[2] Skinner next made appearances for Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1938, playing nine times in that season.
[1] With the start of World War II, he was mentioned in the London Gazette in June 1940 as having passed out of the Officers' Training Corps with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
[6] While on active service in India, he later made his final first-class appearance for the Europeans, which came against the Hindus in the 1943–44 Bombay Pentangular Tournament, as well as making his final career first-class appearance for a Services XI against an Indian XI in February 1944.
[2] Following the war, he returned to play for Buckinghamshire in 1952, making an appearance each against Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Norfolk.