{{Short description|South African cricketer (1933–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Kim Elgie | image = | caption = | fullname = Michael Kelsey Elgie | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|3|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Berea, Durban, Natal, South Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|9|16|1933|3|6|df=yes}} | death_place = Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox | club1 = Natal | year1 = {{nowrap|1957/58–1961/62}} | columns = 2 | column1 = Test | matches1 = 3 | runs1 = 75 | bat avg1 = 12.50 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 56 | deliveries1 = 66 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1= 4/– | column2 = First-class | matches2 = 32 | runs2 = 1,834 | bat avg2 = 36.67 | 100s/50s2 = 3/13 | top score2 = 162* | deliveries2 = 760 | wickets2 = 10 | bowl avg2 = 40.50 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 3/16 | catches/stumpings2= 25/– | international = true | country = South Africa | testdebutagainst = New Zealand | testdebutdate = 8 December | testdebutyear = 1961 | lasttestdate = 1 January | lasttestagainst = New Zealand | lasttestyear = 1962 | source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/44955.html Cricinfo | date = 3 December | year = 2020 }} '''Michael Kelsey '''"'''Kim'''"''' Elgie''' (6 March 1933{{snd}}16 September 2025) was a South African cricketer who played in three Test matches in the 1961–62 series against New Zealand. He was also a rugby union footballer, who played for Scotland eight times as a centre while he was studying at the University of St Andrews in the 1950s.
Elgie was educated at Michaelhouse before attending the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he studied science. He then studied optometry in London.<ref name=SR/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brooke |first1=Robert |title=The Collins Who's Who of English First-Class Cricket, 1945-1984 |date=1985 |publisher=Collins |location=London |isbn=0002180960 |page=82}}</ref> A middle-order right-handed batsman and occasional left-arm spin bowler, he played first-class cricket for Natal from 1957–58 to 1961–62, and toured England with the Fezelas in 1961. He hit his top first-class score of 162 not out for Natal against Border in the 1959–60 season in a match in which 38 wickets fell for 418 runs.<ref>Andrew Ward, ''Cricket's Strangest Matches'', Robson, 1999, pp. 186–88.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Border v Natal 1959-60 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1959-60/RSA_LOCAL/CSC/SCORECARDS/BOR_NATAL_CSC_19-22DEC1959.html |website=Cricinfo |access-date=20 January 2024}}</ref>
Elgie retired from cricket after the 1961–62 season to work in his family's optometry business.<ref>''Wisden'' 2026, p. 227.</ref> With the death of Godfrey Lawrence in March 2025, Elgie became the oldest living South African Test cricketer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oldest living players in Tests |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/oldest-living-players-283742 |publisher=Cricinfo |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The 11 oldest living players in Test cricket |url=https://www.cricket365.com/test-cricket/oldest-living-players-in-test-cricket |website=Cricket365 |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> Elgie died on 16 September 2025.<ref name=SR>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Kim Elgie |url=https://scottishrugby.org/news-and-features/obituary-kim-elgie/ |website=Scottish Rugby |access-date=26 February 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kim Elgie Profile |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/kim-elgie-44955 |website=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=26 February 2026}}</ref>
==See also== * List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=44955}}
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