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Allan Rae (cricketer)

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Allan Rae
Personal information
Full name
Allan Fitzroy Rae
Born(1922-09-30)30 September 1922
Rollington Town, Kingston, Jamaica
Died27 February 2005(2005-02-27) (aged 82)
Kingston, Jamaica
BattingLeft-handed
RelationsErnest Rae (father)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 69)10 November 1948 v India
Last Test19 February 1953 v India
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 15 80
Runs scored 1,016 4,798
Batting average 46.18 39.65
100s/50s 4/4 17/15
Top score 109 179
Balls bowled 24
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 10/– 42/–
Source: Cricinfo, 2 December 2019

Allan Fitzroy Rae (30 September 1922 – 27 February 2005) was a Jamaican cricketer who played as a batsman. Rae featured in 15 Test matches between 1948 and 1953 for the West Indies cricket team.[1][2]

Early Days

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Rae attended Wolmer's Schools. In June 1988 he was celebrated on the $4 Jamaican stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle.

Test career

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Allan Rae was a specialist batsman, who made just over 1,000 Test runs in his five-year career, including four centuries. He also had a famous opening partnership alongside Trinidadian batsman Jeffrey Stollmeyer with the duo averaging a lofty 71 in their 13 tests as a pair. His Test batting average of 46.18 was considerably higher than his first-class average of 39.65, despite his 17 centuries at first-class level and a highest score of 179. He later became president of the West Indies Cricket Board from 1981 to 1988. His father, Ernest Rae, toured England with the West Indies team in 1928.[1][2]

Domestic career

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Rae was also the first batsman to score a century in each innings of a West Indian first class cricket tournament.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Allan Rae". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  2. ^ a b Hodgson, Derek (2 March 2005). "Allan Rae". independent.co.uk. The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Allan Rae: The first batsman to score a century in each innings in regional first-class cricket". stabroeknews.com. Stabroek News. 8 December 2021.