Lanville Allonie Harrigan (born 26 September 1967) is a former
Anguilla
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n cricketer who played for the
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in West Indian domestic cricket. He was a right-handed
opening batsman
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batters play through their team's innings, there always being two batters taking part at any one time. All eleven players in a team are required to bat if the innings is completed (i.e., if ...
.
Harrigan made his
first-class debut for the Leewards during the
1988–89 Red Stripe Cup, against
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...
.
[First-class matches played by Lanville Harrigan](_blank)
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2016. He became only the third Anguillan to play first-class cricket, after
Cardigan Connor
Cardigan Adolphus Connor (born 24 March 1961) is an Anguillan born former English cricketer. Connor was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
Career
Connor left his home island of Anguilla in 1979 to pursue a cricketing ca ...
and
Eustace Proctor
Eustace Jerome Proctor (born 15 November 1965) is a former Anguillan cricketer who played for the Leeward Islands in West Indian domestic cricket. He was the second Anguillan to play first-class cricket, after Cardigan Connor, and the first to ...
, and the second after Proctor to play for the Leewards. Against
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
during the
1992–93 Red Stripe Cup, Harrigan scored a maiden first-class half-century, making 57 opening the batting with
Stuart Williams.
The next season, he scored 255 runs from five matches, third only to Stuart Williams and
Keith Arthurton
Keith Lloyd Thomas Arthurton (born 21 February 1965) is a former West Indian cricketer. Having become only the third player to hail from Nevis, the middle order batsman/left-arm orthodox bowler played in 33 Tests between July 1988 and August 19 ...
amongst Leewards batsmen.
Against
Trinidad and Tobago
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in the final the
1995–96 Red Stripe Cup, Harrigan made what was to be his highest first-class score, 67 runs. Despite having a lower
batting average
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Cricket
In cricket, a player's batting average is ...
in limited-overs cricket than in the longer form of the game,
West Indies / Players / Lanville Harrigan
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 January 2016. he twice surpassed his first-class best in one-day matches, scoring 68 against Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...
during the 1993–94 season and 85 against Jamaica during the 1997–98 season.[List A matches played by Lanville Harrigan](_blank)
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2016. Harrigan's final matches for the Leewards were played during the 1997–98 season, but he returned to topflight West Indian cricket for the 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl
The 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl was the 29th edition of what is now the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It ran from 14 August to 1 September 2002, with ma ...
, representing the Rest of Leeward Islands team that played during the few seasons where Antigua and Barbuda
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fielded a separate side. Harrigan was 34 at the time of his last List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
appearances.
References
External links
Player profile and statistics
a
CricketArchive
a
ESPNcricinfo
1967 births
Living people
Anguillan cricketers
Leeward Islands cricketers
Rest of Leeward Islands cricketers
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