Full name Vincent Roy Lumsden 1949-50 to 1959-60 Jamaica Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | Batting style Right-handed Name Vincent Lumsden Bowling style Right-arm off-spin | |
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Born 19 July 1930 (age 93) ( 1930-07-19 ) Buff Bay, Portland Parish, Jamaica | ||
1953 to 1956 Cambridge University | ||
Vincent Roy Lumsden (born 19 July 1930, Buff Bay, Portland Parish, Jamaica) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Jamaica and Cambridge University from 1950 to 1960.
A champion schoolboy cricketer, Lumsden attended Munro College in Jamaica on a scholarship from 1943 to 1949, and went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1952 to study agronomy. He made his first-class debut for Jamaica in 1949-50, opening the batting and scoring 20 and 33. 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. 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." 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. His 47 in the second innings in the annual match against Oxford University helped Cambridge salvage a draw.
In 1955 he scored 99 in the match against Worcestershire, again top-scoring in a Cambridge victory, this time by an innings. 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. He played four Minor Counties matches for Cambridgeshire in 1955 but with little success. 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.
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. His last match was against MCC in 1959-60.