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Place of Birth: Saint Michael, Barbados
About Oliver Layne
- Oliver Hoffran Layne (3 July 1876 in Brittons Hill, St Michael, Barbados – 16 August 1932 at Bellevue Hospital, New York City) was a 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.
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