| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ray Ricardo Wynter | |||
| Born | 27 November 1955 Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| Role | Opening bowler | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1975-1983 | Jamaica | |||
| First-class debut | January 16 1976 Jamaica v Combined Leeward/Windward Islands | |||
| Last First-class | January 28 1983 West Indies XI v South Africa | |||
| List-A debut | February 22 1976 Jamaica v Barbados | |||
| Last List-A | April 8 1982 Jamaica v Windward Islands | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | List-A | ||
| Matches | 18 | 12 | ||
| Runs scored | 70 | 22 | ||
| Batting average | 5.38 | 4.40 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | ||
| Top score | 13 | 9 | ||
| Balls bowled | 2067 | 582 | ||
| Wickets | 33 | 15 | ||
| Bowling average | 37.54 | 24.53 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | ||
| Best bowling | 5/48 | 3/15 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 10/0 | 0/0 | ||
| Source: Cricket Archive, September 18 2008 | ||||
Ray Ricardo Wynter (born 27 November 1955) is a West Indian cricketer who played first-class and one day cricket for the Jamaican team from 1975 until 1982. A right-hand bat and a "promising"[1] right-arm fast-medium opening bowler, Wynter played 30 matches in all.[2] After seven years at Jamaica, he participated in a rebel tour of South Africa with the West Indies XI and, as a result, he, along with all the other players on the tour, subsequently received a lifetime ban from cricket.[2]
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A native of Jamaica's capital, Kingston,[2] Ray Wynter played his first major cricket match on 25 February 1975 for Jamaica's Under-19 team against Leeward Islands, scoring nine runs in the second inning and taking 2/34 before the match was drawn.[3] He began playing first-class cricket on 16 January 1976 against a combined Leeward and Windward Islands team.[4] His first season saw him appearing in five first-class matches, scoring only 13 runs at 3.25,[5] 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.[6] Wynter played only one List-A match in his first season, with no runs off the bat,[7] but with two wickets with the ball at 13.50.[8]
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 inning.[5] He also performed poorly with the ball, four wickets at 75.00 with a best of 2/28.[6] His single List-A match of this season also saw a poor batting return of 2 runs,[7] and his bowling returned one wicket at 38.00.[8] The winter of 1977/78 saw Wynter 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.[5] His bowling in the same format again featured poor returns, with just a single wicket at 81.00.[5] He was not required to bat in the List-A matches of this season,[7] however his one-day bowling figures improved with four wickets at 14/50 including a career best 3/15.[8]
During the winter of 1978/79, Wynter did not feature in any first-class matches,[5][6] and he did not bat in his one List-A appearance,[7] though he did take one wicket for 18 runs.[8] 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.[5] His bowling returned two wickets at 42.00 each in these first-class matches,[6] though he did not play any one-day cricket that season.[7][8] Wynter's appearances became more sporadic in the 1980/81 season, where he did not make a first-class appearance.[5][6] In his two first class matches he scored seven runs at 3.50,[7] and found success with the ball, with three wickets at 14.33, his best figures since 1976.[8]
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.[5] He also reached career best figures with the ball, taking 14 wickets at 32.85.[6] He also scored 13 runs at 6.50 from five List-A matches,[7] and took four wickets at 46.00.[8] Over the winter of 1982/83, Wynter left Jamaica and controversially toured South Africa with the West Indies XI, drawing heavy criticism due to the tour's breaking a sports ban then in existence against South Africa as punishment for its racial policy of apartheid. Wynters played one first-class match on 28 February 1983,[9] scoring nine runs and a not out duck, which left him with an average of 9.00.[5] He also took two wickets at 29.50,[6] those of Kevin McKenzie and Garth le Roux, and he also caught Jimmy Cook off the bowling of Franklyn Stephenson.[9]
For taking part in the rebel tour, Wynter received a life ban from professional cricket. He subsequently settled in the United States.[2][1]