Jimmy Cameron

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = West Indian
country = West Indies
country abbrev = WI
name = Jimmy Cameron
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Right-arm offbreak
tests = 5
test runs = 151
test bat avg = 25.16
test 100s/50s = -/1
test top score = 75*
test balls = 786
test wickets = 3
test bowl avg = 92.66
test 5s = -
test 10s = -
test best bowling = 2/74
test catches/stumpings = -/-
FCs = 21
FC runs = 551
FC bat avg = 25.04
FC 100s/50s = -/3
FC top score = 75*
FC balls = 3218
FC wickets = 29
FC bowl avg = 48.65
FC 5s = -
FC 10s = -
FC best bowling = 4/52
FC catches/stumpings = 9/-
debut date = 10 November
debut year = 1948
last date = 4 February
last year = 1949
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51458.html

Francis James "Jimmy" Cameron, born at Kingston, Jamaica on June 22, 1923 and died at Kingston, Jamaica on June 10, 1994, was a cricketer who played in five Tests for the West Indian cricket team in India in 1948-49.

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 Jamaica, 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.