Michael Robin Bynoe (born February 23, 1941, in Black Rock,

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) is a former

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er who played in four

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between 1959 and 1967.

Career

Bynoe had played only two first-class matches when he was picked for the West Indies' tour of India and

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in 1958–59. He had limited success on the tour, with a highest score in the first-class matches of only 76, but was picked for the final Test match, aged 18, when he opened the innings with

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. He was out for one run and took one catch. In the limited first-class cricket in the West Indies in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bynoe's appearances were only sporadic and it was 1963–64 when he made his first first-class century, 120 for

against

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. Centuries in the next two West Indian seasons led to a second call up for a tour to India, this time the 1966–67 tour. Again, Bynoe had limited success in the first-class games, but this time he played in all three Tests as the opening partner to

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. Only in the third match, at

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(now

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), did he make any impact, scoring 48 and 36 and taking his only Test wicket. Thereafter Bynoe's first-class cricket was confined to Barbados, for whom he played until the

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, where he made his highest first-class score of 190 against

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. He toured England with the Barbados team in 1969, but had not been picked for the West Indies team that was in England earlier that season.

References

External links

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1941 births Living people West Indies Test cricketers Barbadian cricketers Barbados cricketers Cricketers from Saint Michael, Barbados {{Barbados-cricket-bio-stub