John Groves (cricketer)

{{Short description|Jamaican cricketer (1914–1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}

{{Use Jamaican English|date=April 2019}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = John Groves

| image =

| country =

| fullname = John Miller Groves

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|7|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|1|19|1914|7|21|df=yes}}

| death_place = Langley, British Columbia, Canada

| heightft = 5

| heightinch = 10

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Jamaica

| year1 = 1934-35 to 1949-50

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 5

| runs1 = 126

| bat avg1 = 15.75

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 38

| deliveries1 = 138

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 3/2

| date = 28 August

| year = 2014

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13584/13584.html Cricket Archive

}}

John Miller Groves (21 July 1914 – 19 January 1996) was a Jamaican cricket player and administrator who played first-class cricket for Jamaica from 1935 to 1950.

After attending St George's College in Kingston, Groves worked as an accountant.[https://newspaperarchive.com/jm/kingston/kingston/kingston-gleaner/1950/01-16/page-10 Daily Gleaner, 16 January 1950, p. 10.] Retrieved 28 August 2014. He played two first-class matches as an opening batsman for Jamaica against MCC in 1934-35, and one as a middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper against the touring Yorkshire team in 1935-36.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13584/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by John Groves] After the war he captained a young Jamaican team on its two-match tour of Trinidad in 1949-50, making his highest first-class score of 38 in the second match, batting at number four.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/19/19178.html Trinidad v Jamaica 1949-50] He also captained a Jamaica Colts side against British Guiana in a five-day non-first-class match in 1956-57.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/137/137466.html British Guiana v Jamaica Colts 1956-57]

Groves later served as Secretary to the West Indies Cricket Board of Control. He also represented Jamaica at football and was a football referee.[http://www.askaccessible.com/stgc59/bio.html Biographies and Profiles of Georgians] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024164314/http://www.askaccessible.com/stgc59/bio.html |date=24 October 2014 }} Retrieved 28 August 2014.

Groves was a Roman Catholic. He married Irma Maxwell in 1940, and they had a son and a daughter. He died in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, in 1996.