Mick Raymer

Vincent Norman "Mick" Raymer (4 May 1918 – 31 October 2006) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1940 to 1956.

Mick Raymer

Personal information
Full name	Vincent Norman Raymer
Born	(1918-05-04)4 May 1918 Toowoomba, Queensland
Died	31 October 2006(2006-10-31) (aged 88) Toowoomba, Queensland
Nickname	Mick
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox, left-arm medium-pace
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1940/41–1956/57	Queensland
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 74 Runs scored 2262 Batting average 22.84 100s/50s 0/14 Top score 85 Balls bowled 17,827 Wickets 201 Bowling average 32.34 5 wickets in innings 6 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 7/100 Catches/stumpings 64/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 September 2019

In the Second World War, Raymer served from 1940 to 1946, chiefly in New Guinea, as a private in the 61st Australian Infantry Battalion. An accident during his service left him partially deaf.^[1][2]

Solidly built, Raymer was a hard-hitting lower-order batsman and a left-arm orthodox bowler who sometimes bowled medium-pace.^[3] His best batting season was 1947–48, when he made 403 runs at an average of 44.77 and also made his highest score, 85 against Western Australia.^[4] He took his best match bowling figures, 10 for 160, in the same match, but Western Australia nevertheless won, thus securing the Sheffield Shield in their inaugural season.^[5]

Johnnie Moyes described Raymer as "a slowish left-hander with remarkable control of length and flight [who] did grand things for Queensland year after year".^[6] Raymer's most successful season with the ball was 1949–50, when he took 34 wickets at an average of 27.14.^[7] His best innings figures were 7 for 100 against South Australia in 1953–54, when he also made 84 in Queensland’s first innings.^[8]

Raymer played as Accrington’s professional in the Lancashire League in 1951 and 1952.^[3] In Queensland he played most of his cricket in his home town of Toowoomba, where he worked as a plasterer.^[9]