Allan Fitzroy Rae (30 September 1922 – 27 February 2005) was a

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who played as a batsman. Rae featured in 15 Test matches between 1948 and 1953 for the

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Early Days

Rae attended

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. In June 1988 he was celebrated on the $4 Jamaican stamp alongside the

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Test career

Allan Rae was a specialist

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, 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 Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer (11 March 1921 – 10 September 1989) was a Trinidad and Tobago cricketer who played as an opening batsman. He played 32 Test matches for the West Indies, captaining 13 of these. He was also a senator. Cricket caree ...

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

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from 1981 to 1988. His father,

Ernest Rae Ernest Allan Rae (8 November 1897 – 28 June 1969) was a Jamaican cricketer who represented West Indies in matches before they attained Test match status. He was the son of Percival Rae and Ethalynd Maud Nix, and went to the Mico Practising S ...

, toured England with the West Indies team in 1928.

Domestic career

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

References

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