Vincent Lumsden
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| Full name | Vincent Roy Lumsden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
19 July 1930 Buff Bay, Portland Parish, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm off-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949-50 to 1959-60 | Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1953 to 1956 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 28 August 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vincent Roy Lumsden (born 19 July 1930, Buff Bay, Portland Parish, Jamaica) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Jamaica and Cambridge University from 1950 to 1960.
A champion schoolboy cricketer,[1] Lumsden 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 side 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 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]
He 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.[12] His last match was against MCC in 1959-60.
References
- ↑ Daily Gleaner, 16 January 1950, p. 10. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Daily Gleaner, 4 September 1952, p. 10. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Trinidad v Jamaica 1949-50
- ↑ Vincent Lumsden batting by season
- ↑ Wisden 1954, p. 640.
- ↑ Wisden 1955, pp. 575-76.
- ↑ Wisden 1955, pp. 272-73.
- ↑ Worcestershire v Cambridge University 1955
- ↑ Sussex v Cambridge University 1955
- ↑ Minor Counties matches played by Vincent Lumsden
- ↑ Wisden 1957, p. 641.
- ↑ Jamaica v Leeward Islands 1958