Claim: Raymond Thomas Dowker (6 July 1919 – 17 December 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who never played at a professional level.
Evidence: Raymond Thomas Dowker (6 July 1919 – 17 December 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury between 1949 and 1957. Canterbury is a first-class cricket team based in Canterbury, New Zealand. First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. First-class cricket (which for this purpose includes all "important matches" played before 1895), along with historical single-wicket and the modern limited-overs forms of List A and Twenty20, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket.