deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting image caption fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 4,149 16 august 1932 1 19 / & ndash ; 1909/10 1904/05 2011 & ndash ; 1912/13 1901/02 & ndash ; 3 july 1876 right-arm medium 2 west indies new of america york city , new york , united states british guiana barbados 6 right-handed oliverlayne.jpg oliver layne in 1906 oliver hoffran layne saint michael , barbados first-class http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/23/23827/23827.html cricketarchive 1876 7 3 yes 1,023 91 1/5 27 oliver layne

oliver layne

oliver hoffran layne -lrb- 3 july 1876 in brittons hill , st michael , barbados -- 16 august 1932 at bellevue hospital , new york city -rrb- was a coloured west indian cricketer who toured england in 1906 .
he was a right-handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler .
being a professional , he had limited opportunities to play in important matches , the inter-colonial tournament being restricted to amateurs only .
he made his debut for barbados against lord brackley 's xi in 1904-05 and had immediate success scoring 93 runs and taking 11 wickets in two matches .
such was his success that he was immediately selected for the combined west indies team in all three of their matches against the tourists .
however in these matches he had little success .
his next important matches were against lord brackley 's team in 1904-05 when he scored 28 and took 5 wickets in the barbados match .
again he achieved little in his two matches for the combined west indies team .
he was selected for the second west indies touring side that toured england in 1906 .
in 10 first class matches he scored 465 at an average of 23.25 and took 34 wickets at an average of 24.08 .
before the 1906 tour he was described as a `` good bat , bowled and field '' and `` a professional and fast right hand bowler who can make the ball bump and is none too pleasant to play on a bad wicket .
he is a fine long field with a dashing return and is a sound , careful bat '' .
he made a brilliant start to the tour taking 6-74 in the second innings of the first match and then scoring 106 in 3 hours in the second match against essex .
he took 7-76 against surrey , 63 against derbyshire , 5-36 against durham and northumberland , 63 and 50 against yorkshire , 62 and 5-14 against norfolk and generally proved himself a more than useful all-rounder .
back in the west indies he moved to british guiana .
he played for british guiana against william shepherd 's team in 1909-10 taking 6-63 , 4-44 , 9-19 and 2-90 in the two matches and scoring 12 and 76 * .
he then became part of shepherd 's team when they moved on to trinidad and took 4-54 in the first match .
he played for the combined west indies against the m.c.c. tourists in 1910-11 and was again selected when they toured again in 1912-13 .
he later emigrated to new york and this marked the end of his first class career .
