Jimmy Cameron
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 5 | 21 |
| Runs scored | 151 | 551 |
| Batting average | 25.16 | 25.04 |
| 100s/50s | -/1 | -/3 |
| Top score | 75* | 75* |
| Balls bowled | 786 | 3218 |
| Wickets | 3 | 29 |
| Bowling average | 92.66 | 48.65 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | - |
| Best bowling | 2/74 | 4/52 |
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 9/- |
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Test debut: 10 November 1948 |
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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.
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