wickets at an average of 15.50. After a break of five years, Cave returned to the Test team for the two-match series against England in 1954-55. He was then appointed to captain the New Zealand team on an eight-Test tour of Pakistan and India from October 1955 to January 1956. The tour was demanding for the whole team. Extreme heat, sub-standard accommodation and facilities, unfamiliar pitches, constant stomach upsets and other illness, as well as dubious umpiring in India, made it difficult for the New Zealanders to play at their best. Cave remained diplomatic throughout, and bowled more overs than any other player: 333 overs for 623 runs and 13 wickets. Always of trim build, he nevertheless lost about 11 kilograms in weight on the tour, and it took him two years to recover full fitness. When the team returned to New Zealand, Cave was captain in the First Test against the West Indies a few weeks later. He was unable to play in the Second Test, then returned for the Third and Fourth Tests under the captaincy of John Reid. In the Fourth Test in Auckland, he had his best Test figures, taking four wickets in each innings to help New Zealand to its first Test victory. He had match figures of 40.4–26–43–8, and took the wicket to end the match when he had Alf Valentine stumped by Sammy Guillen. Cave was New Zealand's leading bowler when the Australians toured in 1956-57, taking 17 wickets in the three unofficial Tests while the other bowlers took 17 wickets between them. Cave toured England in 1958, this time as John Reid's vice-captain, but the tour was not a success for him or the team. He took 50 wickets at an average of 22.02 in the first-class matches, but played in only two of the five Tests, taking two wickets. Personal life Cave married Yvonne Joyce Anderson at Wanganui on 28 April 1951; they had two sons. He and his wife were keen camellia growers, and he developed a variety that was named after him. He died at Wanganui on 15 September 1989. His widow, Vonnie Cave, was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to photography and horticulture, in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, and she died in Whanganui in 2021. References External links Cave, Henry Butler at DNZB 1922 births 1989 deaths Cricketers from Whanganui