{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}} {{about||the American surgeon and researcher|Michael Peter Kaye}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Michael Arthur Chadwick Porter Kaye | birth_date = 11 January 1916 | birth_place = Kensington, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1998|9|22|1916|1|11}} | death_place = Charing Cross, London, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium-fast | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1937–1938 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 17 | runs1 = 395 | bat avg1 = 17.95 | 100s/50s1 = –/2 | top score1 = 78 | deliveries1 = 2,175 | wickets1 = 31 | bowl avg1 = 40.12 | fivefor1 = 1 | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 5/89 | catches/stumpings1 = 11/– | date = 3 June | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15953.html Cricinfo }}
'''Michael Arthur Chadwick Porter Kaye''' {{postnominal|TD|DL}} (11 January 1916 – 22 September 1988) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Kaye played first-class cricket predominantly for Cambridge University and the Free Foresters between 1937 and 1949. He also served in the British Army with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, seeing action in the Second World War. He later served as a deputy lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
==Early life and university cricket== Kaye was born at Kensington in January 1916 and was educated at Harrow School, where he was a part of the Harrow School contingent of the Officers' Training Corps.<ref name="GAZ">{{London Gazette |issue=34181|date=19 July 1935|page=464}}</ref> After leaving Harrow he enlisted in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as a second lieutenant in July 1935,<ref name="GAZ"/> before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Cambridge University List of Members |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1991 |page=737 |isbn=9780521434683 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AcAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against the touring New Zealanders at Fenner's in 1937.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30697/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Michael Kaye |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref> His only other first-class appearance in 1937 came for the Free Foresters ''against'' Cambridge University.<ref name="FCM"/> He appeared in eight first-class matches for the university in 1938, before touring Jamaica with a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team in August 1938, playing two first-class matches against Jamaica at Kingston.<ref name="FCM"/> In nine first-class matches for Cambridge, he scored 244 runs with a high score of 78,<ref name="FCB">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30697/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Michael Kaye |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref> while with his right-arm medium-fast bowling he took 26 wickets at an average of 34.50, with best figures of 5 for 89 against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1938,<ref name="FCBO">{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30697/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Michael Kaye |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16663.html |title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University, 1938 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref> which saw him dismissed Denis Compton for a duck.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228770.html |title=Wisden – Obituaries in 1988 |date=6 December 2005 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |accessdate=3 June 2019}}</ref> He gained a blue in 1938,<ref name="OBIT"/> and after graduating from Pembroke in the same year,<ref name="BOOK"/> he made a further first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University in 1939.<ref name="FCM"/> He was also promoted to the rank of lieutenant in July 1938.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34548|date=6 September 1938|page=5677}}</ref>
==Later military career and life== Kaye served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during the Second World War, holding the war substantive rank of captain by its conclusion. He resumed playing first-class cricket for the Free Foresters after the war, making four further appearances against Cambridge University between 1946 and 1949.<ref name="FCM"/> In six matches for the Free Foresters, he scored 127 runs and took 4 wickets.<ref name="FCB"/><ref name="FCBO"/> He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in May 1947.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38034|date=1 August 1947|page=3658|supp=y}}</ref> He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in February 1949,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38530|date=4 February 1949|page=629|supp=y}}</ref> while in March 1955 he was appointed as an honorary colonel of a Territorial Army unit.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40419|date=25 February 1955|page=1256|supp=y}}</ref> Kaye resigned his commission in April 1959.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41674|date=3 April 1959|page=2253|supp=y}}</ref> He was appointed as a deputy lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire in June 1960.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=42063|date=14 June 1960|page=4157|supp=y}}</ref> He died at Charing Cross in September 1998.
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=15953}}
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