Jimmy Cameron

Jimmy Cameron

Personal information
Born	(1923-06-23)23 June 1923 Kingston, Jamaica
Died	10 June 1994(1994-06-10) (aged 70) Kingston, Jamaica
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm offbreak
International information
National side	West Indies
Test debut	10 November 1948 v India
Last Test	4 February 1949 v India
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 5 21 Runs scored 151 551 Batting average 25.16 25.04 100s/50s 0/1 0/3 Top score 75* 75* Balls bowled 786 3,218 Wickets 3 29 Bowling average 92.66 48.65 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 2/74 4/52 Catches/stumpings 0/– 9/–
Source: CricInfo, 30 October 2022

Francis James Cameron (22 June 1923 – 10 June 1994) was a

Biography

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

, 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.

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