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| Full name | Raymond Paul Baker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 1954 Carshalton, Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1978 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 2 May 1973 Surrey v Oxford Univ. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 29 July 1978 Surrey v Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LA debut | 19 May 1973 Surrey v essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last LA | 30 July 2025 Surrey v Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raymond Paul Baker (born 9 April 1954) is an English former cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club between 1973 and 1978. [1]
A right-arm medium-pace bowler,Baker was born at Carshalton in Surrey in 1954 and educated at Wallington High School for Boys. [2] [3] After playing age-group cricket for Surrey in 1972,he made his first-class and List A debuts for the side in 1973. [4] In the summer of 1976,he was injured in a car accident and required 63 stitches to his face. [5]
In a career that lasted until 1978,Baker played a total of 54 first-class and 45 List A matches for Surrey. He took 104 first-class wickets with a best analysis of six for 29 runs taken against Essex in 1974. This was his only senior five-wicket haul. [4]
During the 1980s Baker played for the Metropolitan Police cricket XI. [4] [6] He later worked as an ECB coach based at Loughborough University. [7] [8]
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