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Alfred Philip Binns (24 July 1929 – 29 December 2017) was a
West Indian A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago). According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED''), the term ''West Indian'' in 1597 described the indigenous inhabitants of the West In ...
cricketer from Jamaica who played in five
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s between
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and
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. He played as wicketkeeper in all five Tests.


Career

Binns was born in
Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...
, and attended St. George's College. He represented
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in
first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...
from 1950 to 1957. His highest score was 157 against
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in 1952–53. He also scored 151 for Jamaica against
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in 1954–55, when he and
Collie Smith O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith (5 May 1933 – 9 September 1959) was a West Indian international cricketer. A hard-hitting batsman and off-spin bowler, Smith was rated highly in West Indies. He idolised Jim Laker, for which reason he was nickn ...
added 277 for the sixth wicket in 230 minutes after Jamaica had been 81 for 5. He toured New Zealand in 1955-56, playing in three of the four Tests. In the 1956–57 season playing for Jamaica against
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, Binns became the first batsmen since John King in
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to be given out
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in a first-class game. He remains the only batsmen ever given out this way in West Indian first-class cricket, and the last outside of the
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. After Binns finished playing cricket he migrated to the
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, where he graduated from
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in
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and worked as a teacher in
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. He married Henrietta Elizabeth Harrison in Boston in 1959, and they had two daughters. They retired to
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in 1985. Binns died in Florida in December 2017 at the age of 88.


References


External links

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Alfred Binns at CricketArchive
1929 births 2017 deaths Cricketers from Kingston, Jamaica West Indies Test cricketers Jamaican cricketers 20th-century Jamaican sportsmen Jamaica cricketers Northeastern University alumni People educated at St. George's College, Jamaica {{Jamaica-cricket-bio-stub