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Full name | Fitzroy Edmund Buffonge | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Montserrat | 11 January 1960|||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
1983/84–1991/92 | Leeward Islands | |||||||||||||||||||||
1977–1987 | Montserrat | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,14 October 2012 |
Fitzroy Edmund Buffonge (born 11 January 1960) is a West Indian attorney and former cricketer. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Bank of Montserrat Limited.
Buffonge was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born on Montserrat. He first played for Montserrat against St Kitts in the 1977 Heineken Challenge Trophy. [1] In January 1984,he made his first-class debut for the Leeward Islands against Jamaica in the 1983/84 Shell Shield,with him making a further first-class appearance in that season's competition against Barbados. [2] In that same season,he made his List A debut for the Leeward Islands against Barbados in the 1983/84 Geddes Grant/Harrison Line Trophy. [3] He continued to play minor matches for Montserrat throughout the 1980s,before appearing for the Leeward Islands in a further List A match against Guyana in the 1988/89 Geddes Grant Shield. [3] In that same season,he made a further first-class appearance for the team against the same opposition,with his final first-class appearance coming in January 1992 when the Leeward Islands played the Windward Islands. [2] In four first-class matches,he scored a total of 107 runs at an average of 15.28,with a high score of 24. [4]
He later became the senior selector for the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, [5] as well as acting as Montserrat coach in both of their appearances in the Twenty20 Stanford 20/20 tournament.
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