Kenneth Cave

{{short description|New Zealand cricket umpire}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Kenneth Cave

| image =

| country = New Zealand

| fullname = Kenneth Holmes Cave

| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|2|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Sunderland, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|5|19|1874|2|25|df=yes}}

| death_place = Wanganui, New Zealand

| batting =

| role =

| umpire = true

| testsumpired = 6

| umptestdebutyr = 1930

| umptestlastyr = 1933

| date = 2 July

| year = 2013

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36805.html Cricinfo

}}

Kenneth Holmes Cave (25 February 1874 – 19 May 1944) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in six Test matches between 1930 and 1933.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36805.html |title= Kenneth Cave |access-date=2 July 2013 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}{{cite web |title=Ken Cave |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41421/41421.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=28 February 2023}}

Ken Cave was a member of a large family of cricketers in the Whanganui area.{{cite web |title=From Leonard to Harry: the Cave family legacy |url=http://nzcricketmuseum.co.nz/cave-family/ |website=NZ Cricket Museum |access-date=3 August 2021}} A middle-order batsman, he played for Whanganui teams from the late 1890s till the mid-1920s, and was one of their leading batsmen when they held the Hawke Cup in 1914-15 and 1925–26.{{cite web |title=Hawke Cup Matches played by Ken Cave |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41421/Hawke_Cup_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=3 August 2021}}

He became an umpire in the Whanganui area in the 1920s. Without having umpired a first-class match, but with the support of the English touring team, he was chosen to umpire all four matches in New Zealand's first Test series, against England in 1929-30.{{cite web |title=Ken Cave as Umpire in First-Class Matches |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41421/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite journal |title=Hawke Cup Match |journal=Manawatu Standard |date=24 March 1930 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19300324.2.41}} He also umpired two of New Zealand's other four home Tests in the 1930s.

Cave's nephew Harry Cave captained the New Zealand Test team in the 1950s.