Raymon Anton Reifer (born 11 May 1991) is a Barbadian

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er. Reifer is a left-handed

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who bowls left-arm

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. He was born in

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. He made his international debut for the

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in December 2017.

Life and domestic career

He is from a family that has a strong cricketing background. His father,

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, played first-class and

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for

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and

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. His cousin, Floyd, plays for Combined Campuses and Colleges and has previously captained the

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and

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cricket. His uncle,

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, has played first-class and List A cricket for Barbados and has played for

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in English domestic cricket. His other uncle,

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, has played for Barbados too. Reifer made his first-class debut for

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against the

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in the 2010/11 Regional Four Day Competition. He was picked by the

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as a 9th round pick in the 2017 CPL Draft. He was the leading run-scorer for Guyana in the

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tournament, with 323 runs in nine matches. In October 2019, he was named in Guyana's squad for the

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tournament. In July 2020, he was named in the

squad for the

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International career

In July 2017, he was named in the West Indies squad for the

series against England, but he did not play. In October 2017, he was again named in the West Indies Test squad, this time for the series against Zimbabwe, but again he did not play. He made his Test debut for the West Indies against New Zealand on 9 December 2017. In October 2018,

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(CWI) awarded him a development contract for the 2018–19 season. In April 2019, he was named in the West Indies'

(ODI) squad for the 2019 Ireland Tri-Nation Series. On 13 May 2019, he made his ODI debut for the West Indies, against

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, in the fifth match of the tri-series in Ireland. In May 2019,

(CWI) named him as one of ten reserve players in the West Indies' squad for the

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. In June 2020, Reifer was named in the West Indies' Test squad, for their series against England. The Test series was originally scheduled to start in May 2020, but was moved back to July 2020 due to the

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. In September 2022, he was named in the West Indies' T20I squad for the

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and the series against Australia. He made his T20I debut on 3 October 2022, against

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References

External links

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