Vincent Lumsden

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.

Vincent Lumsden

Personal information
Full name	Vincent Roy Lumsden
Born	19 July 1930 Buff Bay, Portland Parish, Jamaica
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
Competition First-class Matches 57 Runs scored 2699 Batting average 27.82 100s/50s 1/14 Top score 107 Balls bowled 628 Wickets 11 Bowling average 32.27 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 4/20 Catches/stumpings 36/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 28 August 2014

Biography

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 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 in 1958.[12] His last match was against MCC in 1959-60.

References

1. Daily Gleaner, 16 January 1950, p. 10. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
2. Daily Gleaner, 4 September 1952, p. 10. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
3. Trinidad v Jamaica 1949-50
4. Vincent Lumsden batting by season
5. Wisden 1954, p. 640.
6. Wisden 1955, pp. 575-76.
7. Wisden 1955, pp. 272-73.
8. Worcestershire v Cambridge University 1955
9. Sussex v Cambridge University 1955
10. Minor Counties matches played by Vincent Lumsden
11. Wisden 1957, p. 641.
12. Jamaica v Leeward Islands 1958

External links

• Vincent Lumsden at CricketArchive (subscription required)
• Vincent Lumsden at ESPNcricinfo