Jimmy Cameron
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Francis James "Jimmy" Cameron, born at Kingston, Jamaica
on June 22, 1923 and died at Kingston, Jamaica on June 10, 1994, was a cricketer
who played in five Tests
for the West Indian cricket team
in India in 1948-49.
Cameron was a right-handed middle- or lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His first-class cricket
career is one of the odder ones: he played only 21 first-class matches, and 14 of those were on the West Indies tour to India, Pakistan and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1948-49, and another four were on the Canadian tour to England in 1954.
A student in Canada at the time, Cameron was picked for the West Indies tour of India after only two first-class matches, both for Jamaica, and his Test debut was his fifth first-class match. In a series dominated by high scoring batsmen and often-wayward West Indian fast bowling, Cameron batted low in the order and was used mainly as a stock bowler. In the second match, at Bombay (Mumbai), he scored an undefeated 75 as the West Indies piled up a second successive score of more than 600; in all five Tests, he took just three wickets.
At the end of the tour, Cameron disappeared from first-class cricket for five years, reappearing in four matches played by the Canadian touring team in England in 1954. He then made only one further first-class appearance, for Jamaica in 1959-60. Outside first-class cricket, he played much League cricket in England.
Cameron's older brother John
also played Test cricket and appeared in first-class cricket for Jamaica, Somerset
and Cambridge University
. Their father, John Joseph Cameron
, also played for Jamaica and was a member of the first West Indian cricket team to tour England in 1906.
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
on June 22, 1923 and died at Kingston, Jamaica on June 10, 1994, was a cricketer
Cricketer
A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....
who played in five Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
for the West Indian cricket team
West Indian cricket team
The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...
in India in 1948-49.
Cameron was a right-handed middle- or lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
career is one of the odder ones: he played only 21 first-class matches, and 14 of those were on the West Indies tour to India, Pakistan and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1948-49, and another four were on the Canadian tour to England in 1954.
A student in Canada at the time, Cameron was picked for the West Indies tour of India after only two first-class matches, both for Jamaica, and his Test debut was his fifth first-class match. In a series dominated by high scoring batsmen and often-wayward West Indian fast bowling, Cameron batted low in the order and was used mainly as a stock bowler. In the second match, at Bombay (Mumbai), he scored an undefeated 75 as the West Indies piled up a second successive score of more than 600; in all five Tests, he took just three wickets.
At the end of the tour, Cameron disappeared from first-class cricket for five years, reappearing in four matches played by the Canadian touring team in England in 1954. He then made only one further first-class appearance, for Jamaica in 1959-60. Outside first-class cricket, he played much League cricket in England.
Cameron's older brother John
John Cameron (cricketer)
John Hemsley Cameron was a cricketer who played in two Tests for the West Indian cricket team in 1939...
also played Test cricket and appeared in first-class cricket for Jamaica, Somerset
Somerset County Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...
and Cambridge University
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
. Their father, John Joseph Cameron
John Joseph Cameron
John Joseph Cameron was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the second West Indian touring side to England in 1906...
, also played for Jamaica and was a member of the first West Indian cricket team to tour England in 1906.