Claude Rubie

Claude Blake Rubie CBE (25 March 1888 – 3 November 1939) was an English first-class cricketer who had amateur status. He was a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper. Rubie was a British Army Special Reserve Major (later Lieut-Colonel) who had seen long service in India and had played for the Europeans in the Bombay Quadrangular between 1919 and 1926. He had then taken part in the MCC tour of India in 1926–27 before returning to England and representing Sussex in four matches in 1930.
Rubie would have managed the England national cricket team in 1939–40 if Marylebone Cricket Club's scheduled tour of India had gone ahead as he had, according to Canynge Caple, a "vast and profound knowledge of Indian cricket". The team had been selected but the outbreak of the Second World War on 1 September 1939 caused the tour's immediate cancellation. However, Rubie died on 3 November that year when the tour would have been underway.
Rubie was born at Lewes and died at Hove, both in Sussex. He made 10 first-class appearances according to CricketArchive, scoring 245 runs @ 24.50 with a highest innings of 84, his sole half-century. He held 16 catches and completed 7 stumpings to average more than two victims per match.