Lawrence Fernandes (born 1945) is a

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former first-class

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er. Fernandes was born in

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in 1942. He spent sometime in

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, before returning to Uganda in the 1960s. An

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...

and described as the best gully fielder in Uganda, Fernandes made a single appearance in

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

for the

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against the touring Indians at

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in 1967. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in the East African first innings by

Venkataraman Subramanya Venkataraman Subramanya (born 16 July 1936) is a former Indian cricketer who played in nine Test matches from 1965 to 1968. He was an aggressive middle order batsman, who captained Mysore for some years, and a useful leg-spin bowler. He later ...

, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 32 runs by

B. S. Chandrasekhar Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; born 17 May 1945) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a leg spinner. Considered among the top echelon of leg spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi an ...

. Between 1963 and 1970, Fernandes also played minor matches for

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, in which he formed a potent

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partnership with Kishore Vasani. In 1972, he had been named in the Uganda squad for their upcoming internationals, but as an Asian-Ugandan he was expelled from Uganda by

Idi Amin Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern w ...

in the same year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandes, Lawrence 1945 births Living people Ugandan people of Indian descent Ugandan cricketers East African cricketers