Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Vincent Roy Lumsden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Buff Bay, Portland Parish, Jamaica | 19 July 1930||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1949-50 to 1959-60 | Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1953 to 1956 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:Cricket Archive,28 August 2014 |
Vincent Roy Lumsden (born 19 July 1930) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Jamaica and Cambridge University from 1950 to 1960. After his cricket career he worked as an agronomist in Jamaica.
Lumsden was born at Buff Bay,Portland Parish,Jamaica. A champion schoolboy cricketer, [1] he attended Munro College in Jamaica on a scholarship from 1943 to 1949,and went to Emmanuel College,Cambridge in 1952 to study agronomy. [2] He made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1949-50,opening the batting and scoring 20 and 33. [3] He scored 60 in the only match he played in 1950-51.
He established himself in the Cambridge cricket team in 1953,batting in the middle order and scoring 449 runs at an average of 22.45. [4] Wisden noted that he "could drive the ball very hard,but his lack of adequate defence and a sense of impetuosity often caused early failures. His fielding,however,was often of special value." [5] He had his best season in 1954,scoring 701 runs at 35.05,top-scoring in each innings with 93 and 107 in the match against Worcestershire,when he shared a fifth-wicket partnership of 176 in just over two hours with John Slack to help Cambridge to victory. [6] His 47 in the second innings in the annual match against Oxford University helped Cambridge salvage a draw. [7]
In 1955 he scored 99 in the match against Worcestershire,again top-scoring in a Cambridge victory,this time by an innings. [8] He finished the season with 627 runs at 28.50. He also played a leading part in the victory over Sussex,top-scoring in each innings with 47 and 90,and taking three wickets with his off-spin. [9] He played four Minor Counties matches for Cambridgeshire in 1955 but with little success. [10] His form for Cambridge declined in 1956 (432 runs at 20.57,with a highest score of 47) and he was unable to play in a fourth consecutive match against Oxford owing to a finger injury. [11]
Lumsden returned to Jamaica and played a few more matches for the Jamaica team. In his first match he returned to the opening position and scored 91 as well as taking 4 for 20 and 2 for 32 in an innings victory over Leeward Islands in 1958. [12] His last match was against MCC in 1959-60.
Lumsden worked in Jamaica for the Banana Board before teaching Botany and Agronomy at the Jamaica School of Agriculture from 1963 to 1965. He worked for the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation from 1965 to 1981,his work including commentary on horse racing. [13] From 1981 to 1989 he was an agricultural adviser to the Minister of Agriculture. From 1990 he did private consultancy in agriculture and hosted a radio program,Farm Time. He was also an operations steward for the Jamaica Racing Commission. [13]
Lumsden married during his last year at Cambridge. He and his wife have a daughter and four sons. [13]
Sir Leonard Hutton was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him as "one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket". He set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match in only his sixth Test appearance,scoring 364 runs against Australia,a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years. Following the Second World War,he was the mainstay of England's batting. In 1952,he became the first professional cricketer of the 20th century to captain England in Tests;under his captaincy England won the Ashes the following year for the first time in 19 years.
Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University,Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England,as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur,he captained Yorkshire from 1948 to 1955 and England on fourteen occasions between 1947 and 1950,winning four Tests,losing seven and drawing three. Yardley was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1948 and in his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,he was described as Yorkshire's finest amateur since Stanley Jackson.
The Australian cricket team in England in 1948 is famous for being the only Test match side to play an entire tour of England without losing a match. This feat earned them the nickname of "The Invincibles",and they are regarded as one of the greatest cricket teams of all time. According to the Australian federal government,the team "is one of Australia's most cherished sporting legends". The team was captained by Don Bradman,who was making his fourth and final tour of England.
Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset and Oxford University. A graceful right-handed batsman,he was selected to play Test cricket for England twice in 1902. Contemporaries judged Palairet to have one of the most attractive batting styles of the period. His obituary in The Times described him as "the most beautiful batsman of all time". An unwillingness to tour during the English winter limited Palairet's Test appearances;contemporaries believed he deserved more Test caps.
Clifford Archibald Roach was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test match in 1928. Two years later,he scored the West Indies' first century in Test matches,followed two matches later by the team's first double century. Roach played for Trinidad,but before having any great success at first-class level,he was chosen to tour England with a West Indies team in 1928 and scored over 1,000 runs. When England played in the West Indies in 1930,he recorded his ground-breaking centuries but had intermittent success at Test level afterwards. He toured Australia in 1930–31 and returned to England in 1933,when he once more passed 1,000 runs,but was dropped from the team in 1935. Within three years,he lost his place in the Trinidad team. Roach was generally inconsistent,but batted in an attacking and attractive style. Outside of cricket,he worked as a solicitor. Later in his life,he suffered from diabetes which necessitated the amputation of both his legs.
Joseph A. Small was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England. He scored the first half century for a West Indies player in Test cricket and played two further Test matches in his career. An all-rounder,he played domestic cricket for Trinidad between 1909 and 1932.
The English cricket team in the West Indies in 1953–54 played five Test matches,five other first-class matches and seven other games,three of them on a two-week stop-over in Bermuda that included Christmas.
Charles Frederick Lyttelton was a priest from the Lyttelton family. As an English first-class cricketer,he played 31 games for Cambridge University,Worcestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the early twentieth century. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College,Cambridge,and became a clergyman.
The West Indian cricket team that toured England in the 1928 season was the first to play Test cricket. The team was not very successful,losing all three Tests by an innings and winning only five of the 30 first-class matches played.
The West Indies cricket team toured England in 1933,playing three Test matches,losing two of them and drawing the other. In all,the side played 30 first-class matches,winning only five and losing nine.
Charles Augustus Ollivierre was a Vincentian cricketer who represented the West Indies in matches before they attained Test match status. Born in St Vincent,Ollivierre initially played first-class cricket for Trinidad;he was selected to tour England with the West Indies team in 1900. He later qualified to play first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1901 and 1907,becoming the first black West Indian to play for an English county. Ollivierre was reasonably successful in county cricket and had a reputation as a stylish batsman. However,he dropped out of first-class cricket after 1907 owing to eye trouble.
John Lawrence was a diminutive Yorkshire-born cricketing all-rounder whose middle or lower order batting and leg-break and googly bowling were of great importance to Somerset in the 10 cricket seasons immediately after the Second World War.
Don Tallon was a key member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team tour of England in 1948,in which Australia was undefeated in their 34 matches. This unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Ernie Toshack was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948 and was undefeated in their 34 matches. This unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned Bradman's men the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Lindsay Hassett was the vice-captain and one of three on-tour selectors for Don Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948. The Australians went undefeated in their 34 matches;this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles,and resulted in them being regarded as one of the greatest teams of all time. A right-handed batsman,Hassett played in all five Tests;he was a middle-order batsman in all but the Fourth Test,when he stood in as an opener due to an injury to Sid Barnes.
Bill Brown was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948. Bradman's men went through their 34 matches without defeat;this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Ian Johnson was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948. Bradman's men went undefeated in their 34 matches;this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Sam Loxton was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948. Bradman's men went undefeated in their 34 matches;this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.
Roy Smith played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1949 and 1955. He was a right-handed middle order batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler.
George Alphonso Headley OD,MBE was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches,mostly before World War II. Considered one of the best batsmen to play for the West Indies and one of the greatest cricketers of all time,Headley also represented Jamaica and played professional club cricket in England. West Indies had a weak cricket team through most of Headley's playing career;as their one world-class player,he carried a heavy responsibility and the side depended on his batting. He batted at number three,scoring 2,190 runs in Tests at an average of 60.83,and 9,921 runs in all first-class matches at an average of 69.86. He was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1934.