William Michael Jeffrey (21 June 1950 – 2 September 1993) was a Guyanese cricketer who represented the Guyanese national team in West Indian domestic cricket. He was 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 ...

who bowled right-arm

off-spin Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right-handed spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal delivery is an off break, which spi ...

and batted right-handed. Jeffrey was born in the town of Rose Hall, in what is now Guyana's

East Berbice-Corentyne East Berbice-Corentyne (Region 6) is one of ten regions in Guyana covering the whole of the east of the country. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Nickerie District and Sipaliwini District of Suriname to the east, Brazil to the sou ...

region. He made his first-class debut for Guyana in a match against

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during the

1969–70 Shell Shield season The 1969–70 Shell Shield season was the fourth edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Roy ...

.First-class matches played by William Jeffrey
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 April 2016. Jeffrey took figures of 3/64 and 1/46 on debut, and remained in Guyana's team for the entire season. However, he made only one Shell Shield appearance the following season, against

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. In late 1971, Jeffrey represented

Berbice Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 to 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

in the final of the inter-county Jones Cup, which at the time held first-class status. He failed to take a wicket as a bowler, but as a batsman scored 78 runs from third in the batting order, his only first-class half-century. After a gap of almost seven years, Jeffrey returned to the Guyanese national team in February 1978 for one final Shell Shield match, against Trinidad and Tobago. After retiring from playing, he took up coaching, eventually being appointed coach of the national under-19 team in 1989. He was the first full-time coach of a Guyanese national team at any level, and in 1992 won the award for Guyana's best sports coach of the year. Jeffrey died in September 1993, aged 43.West Indies / Players / William Jeffrey
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2016.

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