Ivan Samuel Madray (2 July 1934 – 23 April 2009) was a West Indian
cricket
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er who played in two
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in
1958
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A leg-spinner, Madray made his first-class debut for
British Guiana
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The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...
against the visiting
Australians in 1954–55 at the age of 20, taking 3 for 122 (the wickets of
Neil Harvey,
Peter Burge and
Ron Archer
Ronald Graham Archer (25 October 1933 – 27 May 2007) was an Australian Test cricketer. He was born in the inner Brisbane suburb of Highgate Hill, was educated at Brisbane's Anglican Church Grammar School and played in 19 Tests from 1953 to 1 ...
) in 23 overs.
He played two matches in 1956–57, taking 4 for 168 off 84 overs against
Jamaica, then 4 for 61 and 1 for 18 against
Barbados in the final of the Quadrangular Tournament.
His next first-class match was his Test debut in the Second Test against
Pakistan in
Port of Spain
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in February 1958, when he and the off-spinner
Lance Gibbs (who was also from British Guiana) both played their first Tests. Madray bowled only 18 overs and took no wickets, and made 1 and 0, but West Indies won. He was left out of the Third Test, which West Indies also won, but he took four wickets (including
Hanif Mohammad and
Saeed Ahmed) against the Pakistanis when they played British Guiana, and returned for the Fourth Test on his home ground in Georgetown. He bowled 16 overs for no wickets and made 2 in his only innings, and that was the end of his first-class career.
He played local cricket for Penzance in Cornwall in 1959 and
Minor Counties cricket for
Lincolnshire from 1963 to 1967, where he was more prominent as a batsman, with a top score of 154 (but no wickets) in a victory over
Cambridgeshire in 1964.
Lincolnshire v Cambridgeshire 1964
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He later lived in the United States.
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1934 births
2009 deaths
West Indies Test cricketers
People from East Berbice-Corentyne
Guyanese cricketers
Lincolnshire cricketers
Guyana cricketers
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