Alfred Philip Binns (24 July 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a
West Indian
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cricket
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er from Jamaica who played in five
Test
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s between
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...
and
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
. He played as wicketkeeper in all five Tests.
Career
Binns attended
St. George's College and represented
Jamaica
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in
first-class cricket
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from 1950 to 1957. His highest score was 157 against
British Guiana in 1952–53. He also scored 151 for Jamaica against
the Australians in 1954–55, when he and
Collie Smith
O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith (5 May 1933 – 9 September 1959) was a West Indian cricketer.
A hard-hitting batsman and off-spin bowler, Smith was rated highly in West Indies. He idolised Jim Laker, for which reason he was nicknamed "Jim" for a ...
added 277 for the sixth wicket in 230 minutes after Jamaica had been 81 for 5. He toured
New Zealand in 1955-56, playing in three of the four Tests.
After Binns finished playing cricket he migrated to the
United States
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, where he graduated from
Northeastern University in
Boston
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and worked as a teacher in
Massachusetts
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. He married Henrietta Elizabeth Harrison in Boston in 1959, and they had two daughters. They retired to
Florida
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in 1985.
Binns died in Florida in December 2017 at the age of 88.
References
External links
*
Alfred Binns at CricketArchive
1929 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica
West Indies Test cricketers
Jamaican cricketers
Jamaica cricketers
Northeastern University alumni
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