{{Short description|West Indian cricketer}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = ClaudeBancroft.jpg | caption = Keith Bancroft in 1906 | country = West Indies | fullname = Claude Keith Bancroft | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|10|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Fontabelle, Saint Michael, Barbados | death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|1|12|1885|10|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper | family = Kenneth Bancroft (brother) | club1 = Barbados | year1 = 1904/05 | clubnumber1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 13 | runs1 = 283 | bat avg1 = 14.15 | 100s/50s1 = –/1 | top score1 = 53 | deliveries1 = – | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 12/7 | date = 25 September | year = 2011 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51317.html Cricinfo }}
'''Claude Keith Bancroft''' (30 October 1885 in Fontabelle, St Michael, Barbados – 12 January 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the second West Indian touring side to England in 1906 as their wicket-keeper.
In 1904–05 he played for Barbados against Lord Brackley's team and then for the combined West Indies team in Barbados.
He was chosen as the wicket-keeper for the 1906 tour to England. Before the tour he was described as "the wicket-leeper of the team, and will be of immense value to his side. Is at present studying at Cambridge, having won the last Barbados Scholarship"<ref>Cricket – A Weekly Record of the Game, 1906 page 178</ref> and "he is in residence at Cambridge as the team arrives in England. A wicketkeeper who is said to be very alert with the gloves. He kept well against Lord Brackley's XI and is also a steady bat".<ref>The West Indian Tour of England 1906 by Gerry Wolstenholme, page 7</ref> He played in 11 of the 13 first class matches during the tour, scoring 53 against Kent in 90 minutes. He had dislocated a finger in the match against Surrey.
In 1907 and 1908 he played in trial matches at Cambridge but never played in a first class match for the University, indeed he didn't play any first class cricket after the 1906 tour.
After his first-class career was over, he did play two matches for the Federated Malay States against the Straits Settlements in 1911.
His brother Kenneth also played for Barbados in 1904–05.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bancroft, Keith}} Category:Federated Malay States cricketers Category:Barbadian cricketers Category:Barbados cricketers Category:1885 births Category:1919 deaths Category:Cricketers from Saint Michael, Barbados