Eustace Shine

Eustace Beverley Shine (9 July 1873 – 11 November 1952) was an English civil servant and amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1895 and 1899.

Early life and cricket Shine was born on 9 July 1873 at Port of Spain at Trinidad where his father was a merchant. He was educated at Edward VI School in Saffron Walden and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He made his first-class debut for Cambridge University in 1895, and played 22 matches for them.

He won cricket Blues in 1896 and 1897, and made his debut for Kent in 1896. Shine played 23 matches for Kent, all but one of them during the 1896 and 1897 seasons, and also appeared in one match for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge. After the 1897 season he played in only one match, a single County Championship appearance for Kent against Lancashire at Canterbury in 1899. He was awarded his Kent county cap in 1896.

In the 1896 University Match Shine deliberately bowled three balls "straight to the boundary" in order to add to Oxford's total and avoid the need for Cambridge to enforce the follow-on. At the time it was compulsory to enforce the follow-on. Cambridge's Cyril Wells had done the same three years earlier. The Laws of Cricket were changed in 1900 to allow the option of enforcing the follow-on to rest with the team ahead.

Predominantly a bowler, Shine took a total of 165 first-class wickets in his 46 first-class matches. He took 10 wickets in a match twice and had best innings bowling figures of 7/65.

Family and later life Shine married Mary Venables in 1900. The couple had a son. After his first wife died, he married Ida Cornwall in 1912 with whom he had three daughters. He died on 11 November 1952 at his home in New Milton, Hampshire aged 79.