Enos Knibbs

Enos Silvester Knibbs (29 July 1886 – 2 November 1953) was a West Indian cricket umpire from Jamaica. He stood in two Test matches, in 1930 and 1935.[1]

Enos Knibbs

Personal information
Full name	Enos Silvester Knibbs
Born	29 July 1886 Kingston, Jamaica
Died	2 November 1953 (aged 67) Jamaica
Umpiring information
Tests umpired	2 (1930–1935)
Source: Cricinfo, 28 April 2020

Knibbs was born in Kingston and began his involvement in cricket as a groundsman at the Melbourne Park ground. He apparently devoted himself to cricket – playing, coaching, repairing bats, umpiring and preparing pitches.[2] The Kingston Daily Gleaner said of his umpiring in 1932 that he was "conscientious, painstaking, intelligent and thoroughly honest in his convictions ... and when he gives a decision, it comes from a cool, calculated and well-balanced mind".[2]

Knibbs umpired most of the first-class matches in Jamaica from 1927 to 1938, including the first two Test matches played in Jamaica.[3] The English Test player Errol Holmes said of him, "Enos Nibbs [sic] was as impartial an umpire as I have ever seen."[4] Knibbs used to smoke a cigarette while standing at square leg, extinguish it before officiating at the bowler's end, then re-light it when he returned to square leg.[4]

See also

• List of Test cricket umpires

References

1. "Enos Knibbs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
2. "Enos 'Major' KNIBBS 1886-1953". Rootsweb. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
3. "Enos Knibbs as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
4. Errol Holmes, Flannelled Foolishness, Hollis & Carter, London, 1957, pp. 84–85.