# Jimmy Cameron

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{{short description|West Indian cricketer}}
{{other people|James Cameron}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name              = Jimmy Cameron
| image             = 
| caption           =
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1923|6|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [Kingston, Jamaica](/source/Kingston%2C_Jamaica)
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1994|6|10|1923|6|23|df=y}}
| death_place       = Kingston, Jamaica
| batting           = Right-handed
| bowling           = Right-arm offbreak
| columns           = 2
| column1           = [Test](/source/Test_cricket)
| matches1          = 5
| runs1             = 151
| bat avg1          = 25.16
| 100s/50s1         = 0/1
| top score1        = 75*
| deliveries1       = 786
| wickets1          = 3
| bowl avg1         = 92.66
| fivefor1          = 0
| tenfor1           = 0
| best bowling1     = 2/74
| catches/stumpings1= 0/–
| column2           = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches2          = 21 
| runs2             = 551
| bat avg2          = 25.04
| 100s/50s2         = 0/3
| top score2        = 75*
| deliveries2       = 3,218
| wickets2          = 29
| bowl avg2         = 48.65
| fivefor2          = 0
| tenfor2           = 0
| best bowling2     = 4/52
| catches/stumpings2= 9/–
| international     = true
| country           = West Indies
| testdebutagainst  = India
| testdebutdate     = 10 November
| testdebutyear     = 1948
| lasttestdate      = 4 February
| lasttestagainst   = India
| lasttestyear      = 1949
|             testcap = 68
| source            = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51458.html CricInfo
| date              = 30 October
| year              = 2022
}}

'''Francis James Cameron''' (22 June 1923 – 10 June 1994) was a [cricketer](/source/cricketer) who played in five [Test matches](/source/Test_cricket) for the [West Indian cricket team](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team) in India in 1948–49.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51458.html |title=Jimmy Cameron |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=5 November 2020}}</ref>

==Biography==
Cameron was a right-handed middle- or lower-order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) career is one of the odder ones: he played only 21 first-class matches, and 14 of those were on the West Indies tour to India, Pakistan and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1948–49, and another four were on the Canadian tour to England in 1954.

A student in Canada at the time, Cameron was picked for the West Indies tour of India after only two first-class matches, both for [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica_cricket_team), and his Test debut was his fifth first-class match. In a series dominated by high scoring batsmen and often-wayward West Indian fast bowling, Cameron batted low in the order and was used mainly as a stock bowler. In the second match, at Bombay (Mumbai), he scored an undefeated 75 as the West Indies piled up a second successive score of more than 600; in all five Tests, he took just three wickets.

At the end of the tour, Cameron disappeared from first-class cricket for five years, reappearing in four matches played by the Canadian touring team in England in 1954. He then made only one further first-class appearance, for Jamaica in 1959–60. Outside first-class cricket, he played much League cricket in England.

Cameron's older brother [John](/source/John_Cameron_(West_Indian_cricketer)) also played Test cricket and appeared in first-class cricket for Jamaica, [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club) and [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club). Their father, [John Joseph Cameron](/source/John_Joseph_Cameron), also played for Jamaica and was a member of the first West Indian cricket team to tour England in 1906.

==References==
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Category:1923 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:West Indies Test cricketers
Category:Jamaican cricketers
Category:Jamaica cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Kingston, Jamaica
Category:20th-century Jamaican sportsmen

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