Colin Keville Hamer (born 6 February 1988) is a

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who has played for the

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in West Indian domestic cricket. Born in Georgetown, the capital of

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, Hamer emigrated to Sint Maarten with his family at an early age, learning to play cricket on the island.Colin Hamer
– Biggin' Up We Island. Retrieved 3 June 2013. In August 2005, he played several matches for the Leeward Islands under-19 team, which included a haul of 3/35 in a one-day match against the Guyana under-19s. Hamer, a right-arm leg spinner, made his first-class debut for the Leewards in late January 2006, against Barbados in the

Carib Beer Cup The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first-class cricket competition in the West Indies. It is administered by the Cricket West Indies. In the 2013-2014 season the winner of the tourname ...

.First-class matches played by Colin Hamer
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2013. In the match, played at the Addelita Cancryn Junior High School Ground in Charlotte Amalie, he took 1/70 in the first innings and 2/29 in the second innings, which included the wicket of Test cricketer

Ryan Hinds Ryan O'Neal Hinds (born 17 February 1981) is a West Indian cricketer. He is a left-hand batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Hinds was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy The 2004 ICC Champions Tr ...

.Leeward Islands v Barbados
Carib Beer Cup 2005/06 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 June 2013. Hamer became the first cricketer from Sint Maarten to play at first-class level. He did not play again for the Leewards until the

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, against Jamaica, but was retained in the squad for the 2015–16 competition.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamer, Colin 1988 births Guyanese cricketers Guyanese emigrants to Sint Maarten Leeward Islands cricketers Living people Cricketers from Georgetown, Guyana Sint Maarten cricketers West Indian cricketers of the 21st century