Ray Wynter

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Ray Wynter


country = West Indies
fullname = Ray Ricardo Wynter
nickname =
living = true
dayofbirth = 27
monthofbirth = 11
yearofbirth = 1955
placeofbirth = Kingston, Jamaica
countryofbirth = West Indies
dayofdeath =
monthofdeath =
yearofdeath =
placeofdeath =
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heightft =
heightinch =
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batting = Right-hand bat
bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
role = Opening bowler

club1 = Jamaica
year1 = 1975-1983
clubnumber1 =

type1 = First-class
onetype1 =
debutdate1 = January 16
debutyear1 = 1976
debutfor1 = Jamaica
debutagainst1 = Combined Leeward/Windward Islands
lastdate1 = January 28
lastyear1 = 1983
lastfor1 = West Indies XI
lastagainst1 = South Africa
type2 = List-A
onetype2 =
debutdate2 = February 22
debutyear2 = 1976
debutfor2 = Jamaica
debutagainst2 = Barbados
lastdate2 = April 8
lastyear2 = 1982
lastfor2 = Jamaica
lastagainst2 = Windward Islands
deliveries = balls
columns = 2
column1 = First-class
matches1 = 18
runs1 = 70
bat avg1 = 5.38
100s/50s1 = 0/0
top score1 = 13
deliveries1 = 2067
wickets1 = 33
bowl avg1 = 37.54
fivefor1 = 1
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 5/48
catches/stumpings1 = 10/0
column2 = List-A
matches2 = 12
runs2 = 22
bat avg2 = 4.40
100s/50s2 = 0/0
top score2 = 9
deliveries2 = 582
wickets2 = 15
bowl avg2 = 24.53
fivefor2 = 0
tenfor2 = 0
best bowling2 = 3/15
catches/stumpings2 = 0/0

date = September 18
year = 2008
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/14978.html Cricket Archive

Ray Ricardo Wynter (November 27, 1955— ) is a former West Indian cricketer who played first-class and one day cricket for Jamaica from 1975 until 1982. A right-hand bat and a "promising" right-arm fast-medium opening bowler, Wynter played 30 matches in all.cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/53261.html|title=Player Profile: Ray Wynter|publisher=CricInfo|accessdate=2008-09-18] After several years at Jamaica, Wynter took part in a rebel tour of South Africa with the West Indies XI. As with all the other players on the tour, he subsequently received a lifetime ban from cricket.

Career

Early life

Wynter was born in 1955 in Kingston, Jamaica. He played his first major cricket match on February 25, 1975 for Jamaica's Under-19 team against Leeward Islands, scoring nine runs in the second innings, and taking 2/34 before the match was drawn.cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/172/172342.html|title=Jamaica Under-19s v Leeward Islands Under-19s|publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18] Wynter began playing first-class cricket on January 16, 1976 against a combined Leeward and Windward Islands team.cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ray Wynter |publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18] His first season saw him appearing in five first-class matches, scoring only 13 runs at 3.25,cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/f_Batting_by_Season.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ray Wynter|publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18] however he found success with the ball, taking 10 wickets at 25.50, with a career best of 5/48 which he would not again reach.cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=First-class Bowling in Each Season by Ray Wynter|publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18] Wynter played only one List-A match in his first season, with no runs off the bat,cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/a_Batting_by_Season.html|title=ListA Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ray Wynter|publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18] but with two wickets with the ball at 13.50.cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/a_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=ListA Bowling in Each Season by Ray Wynter|publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18]

1976-1981

Wynter's second season, over the winter of 1976/77, saw little improvement with the bat, scoring 16 runs from four matches at 4.00, 13 of those in one innings. He also performed poorly with the ball, four wickets at 75.00 with a best of 2/28. His single List-A match of this season also saw a poor batting return of 2 runs, and his bowling returned one wicket at 38.00. The winter of 1977/78 saw Wynters play in only two matches, registering three ducks and a score of five not out to leave him with an average of 5.00 from the bat in first-class matches. His bowling in the same format again featured poor returns, with just a single wicket at 81.00. He was not required to bat in the List-A matches of this season, however his one-day bowling figures improved with four wickets at 14/50 including a career best 3/15.

During the winter of 1978/79, Wynters did not feature in any first-class matches, and he did not bat in his one List-A appearance, though he did take one wicket for 18 runs. The 1979/80 season saw Wynter return for one match, scoring 12 runs and a duck to leave him with a season average of 6.00, a career best thus far. His bowling returned two wickets at 42.00 each in these first-class matches, though he did not play any one day cricket that season. Wynter's appearances became more sporadic in the 1980/81 season, where he did not make a first-class appearance. In his two first class matches he scored seven runs at 3.50, and found success with the ball, with three wickets at 14.33, his best figures since 1976.

outh Africa

The 1981/82 season was Wynter's last for Jamaica. He appeared in five first-class matches, scoring 15 runs at a career best 15.00. He also reached career best figures with the ball, taking 14 wickets at 32.85. He also scored 13 runs at 6.50 from five List-A matches, and took four wickets at 46.00. Over the winter of 1982/83, Wynter left Jamaica and toured South Africa with the West Indies XI, an action then criticised due to the apatheid regime operating in South Africa at the time. Wynters played one first-class match on February 28, 1983, scoring nine runs and a not out duck, which left him with an average of 9.00. He also took two wickets at 29.50, those of Kevin McKenzie and Garth le Roux, and he also caught Jimmy Cook off the bowling of Franklyn Stephenson.cite web|url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/43/43200.html|title=South Africa v West Indies XI|publisher=Cricket Archive|accessdate=2008-09-18]

For taking part in the rebel tour, Wynter received a life ban from professional cricket. He subsequently settled in the United States.cite web|url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/286356.html|title="The Unforgive"|last=Vaidyanathan|first=Siddhartha|date=August 2, 2007|publisher=CricInfo|language=English|accessdate=2008-09-18]

Notes

External links

*cricinfo|ref=westindies/content/player/53261.html
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14978/14978.html Player Profile: Ray Wynter] from Cricket Archive