Irvin Bancroff Iffla (20 January 1924 – 16 March 2012) was a Jamaican-born
cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
er who lived and played in Scotland.
Life
He 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 ...
the son of Donald Keith Iffla (1893-1926) and his wife Epoldina Maud Patterson (1896-1963).
He played in four
first-class matches for the
Jamaican cricket team
The Jamaica national cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Jamaica. The team competes under the franchise name, Jamaica Scorpions in the Cricket West Indies' Professional Cricket League which comprises both the Regio ...
from 1947 to 1950. In 1951, he moved to Scotland to join
Stirling County Cricket Club and is credited with popularising cricket in the country.
He died at 1 Hill Street in
St Ninians
St. Ninians is a long-standing settlement which is now a district of the city of Stirling in central Scotland. It is located approximately one mile south of the city centre. It was originally known as Eccles (i.e. 'church'), and may have be ...
just south of Stirling and is buried in Valleyfield Cemetery next to
Stirling Castle
Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. The castle sits atop an Intrusive rock, intrusive Crag and tail, crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill ge ...
in central Scotland.
Family
In 1945 he was married to Lucille Pearce in Jamaica. They had five children.
[Glasgow Herald 22 March 2012]
See also
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List of Jamaican representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for the Jamaica national cricket team in the West Indies. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervenin ...
References
External links
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1924 births
2012 deaths
Jamaican cricketers
Jamaica cricketers
Cricketers from Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom
20th-century Jamaican sportsmen
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