A Hundred Years Of Costa Rican Cricket - (1890-1990)

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One of the characters of Costa Rican cricket was Lancelot (Lance) Binns, born at Siquirres on the 18th August 1916. In 1926 he left with his parents for Jamaica, was educated at the Calabar High School and then remained in Jamaica until 1939. He remembered vividly a game in February 1936 when he played for the Schoolboy XV against a Yorkshire touring team which included Len Hutton, Maurice Leyland, Herbert Sutcliffe, Bill Bowes and Hedley Verity. He recalled scoring 34. I recently looked up the scorecard and found that Lance had opened the innings and had made 30 before being bowled by Smailes (who later played one match for England). In his second innings he was caught Wood bowled Smailes 2. The Schoolboys made 194 and 61 for 5. Yorkshire replied with 222 but the match was drawn. It is worth noting that the Yorkshire team for this match contained no fewer than eight players who had already or would soon play for England (Gibb, Hutton, Sutcliffe, Mitchell, Leyland, Wood, Smailes and Bowes; Verity was rested).


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