Raymond Windsor
Raymond Thomas Albert Windsor (9 February 1943 – 14 August 2024) was an English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset in 1969.[1] He was born at Wellington, Somerset.
Windsor was a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler who made a lot of runs in club cricket for Wellington and Taunton.[2] In August 1969, playing for Somerset's second eleven in a Minor Counties Championship match against Cornwall he hit 140 out of 225 in Somerset's first innings.[3] That earned him a fairly instant call-up into Somerset's first team for a List A Sunday League match against Yorkshire, but Somerset won easily by nine wickets, and he was not required to bat or to bowl.[4] Later in the same month, he was picked for a single County Championship match against Sussex; he batted at No 7 and was out, bowled by Tony Greig, without scoring in the first innings, and the second Somerset innings finished at 220 for four wickets, so he did not bat a second time.[5] He was not picked for the first team again, though he continued to appear in sporadic second eleven games to 1978.
Windsor died in August 2024, at the age of 81.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Raymond Windsor". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ↑ David Foot & Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 124. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset Second XI v Cornwall". CricketArchive. 4 August 1969. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Yorkshire". CricketArchive. 10 August 1969. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Sussex". CricketArchive. 23 August 1969. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ↑ Walsh, Richard (18 August 2024). "Wellington and Somerset mourn the loss of Ray Windsor". Somerset County Gazette. Retrieved 16 October 2025.