Nigel Slinger (born 25 June 1937) is a former Guyanese
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He played in three
first-class matches for
British Guiana
British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...
and
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...
in 1958/59 and 1959/60.
Slinger was a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He worked as an insurance broker in Trinidad. In 1998 he was awarded the silver
Hummingbird Medal for services to sport in Trinidad.
See also
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List of Guyanese representative cricketers
The Guyana cricket team represents, originally, the British colony of British Guiana and later the independent state of Guyana.
Guyana's inaugural first-class match (as British Guiana) commenced on 29 August 1895 against Trinidad at Bourda in Ge ...
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1937 births
Living people
Guyanese cricketers
Guyana cricketers
Trinidad and Tobago cricketers
Cricketers from Georgetown, Guyana
Recipients of the Hummingbird Medal
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