Mick Raymer

Vincent Norman "Mick" Raymer (4 May 1918 – 31 October 2006) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1940 to 1956.

Mick Raymer
Personal information
Full name
Vincent Norman Raymer
Born(1918-05-04)4 May 1918
Toowoomba, Queensland
Died31 October 2006(2006-10-31) (aged 88)
Toowoomba, Queensland
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox, left-arm medium-pace
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1940/41–1956/57Queensland
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 74
Runs scored 2262
Batting average 22.84
100s/50s 0/14
Top score 85
Balls bowled 17,827
Wickets 201
Bowling average 32.34
5 wickets in innings 6
10 wickets in match 1
Best bowling 7/100
Catches/stumpings 64/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 September 2019

In the Second World War, Raymer served from 1940 to 1946, chiefly in New Guinea, as a private in the 61st Australian Infantry Battalion. An accident during his service left him partially deaf.[1][2]

Solidly built, Raymer was a hard-hitting lower-order batsman and a left-arm orthodox bowler who sometimes bowled medium-pace.[3] His best batting season was 1947-48, when he made 403 runs at an average of 44.77 and also made his highest score, 85 against Western Australia.[4] He took his best match bowling figures, 10 for 160, in the same match, but Western Australia nevertheless won, thus securing the Sheffield Shield in their inaugural season.[5]

Johnnie Moyes described him as "a slowish left-hander with remarkable control of length and flight [who] did grand things for Queensland year after year".[6] Raymer's most successful season with the ball was 1949-50, when he took 34 wickets at an average of 27.14.[7] His best innings figures were 7 for 100 against South Australia in 1953-54, when he also made 84 in Queensland’s first innings.[8]

He played as Accrington’s professional in the Lancashire League in 1951 and 1952.[3] In Queensland he played most of his cricket in his home town of Toowoomba, where he worked as a plasterer.[9]

References
  1. "Mick Raymer". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  2. "Raymer, Vincent Norman". World War Two Nominal Roll. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  3. The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 441–42.
  4. "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Mick Raymer". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  5. Wisden 1949, pp. 797–98.
  6. A. G. Moyes, Australian Cricket: A History, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959, p. 498.
  7. "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Mick Raymer". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  8. "South Australia v Queensland 1953-54". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  9. Wisden 2007, p. 1568.
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