Alan Rayment

Alan William Harrington Rayment (29 May 1928 at Finchley, Middlesex - 27 October 2020 at Lymington, Hampshire) was a former English first-class cricketer.

Alan Rayment
Personal information
Full nameAlan William Harrington Rayment
Born(1928-05-29)29 May 1928
Finchley, Middlesex, England
Died27 October 2020(2020-10-27) (aged 92)
Lymington, Hampshire, England
NicknamePunchy
BattingRight-handed
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1947Combined Services
1949–1958Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 199
Runs scored 6,338
Batting average 20.31
100s/50s 4/23
Top score 126
Balls bowled 1,205
Wickets 19
Bowling average 40.63
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 4/75
Catches/stumpings 86/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 28 October 2020

He was a right-handed middle-order batsman. All but one of his first-class appearances were for Hampshire.

Cricket career

Rayment made his debut in first-class cricket for the Combined Services against Northamptonshire in 1947. This was the only first-class match he played for the Combined Services. He made his first-class debut for Hampshire two years later in the 1949 County Championship against Glamorgan. He represented Hampshire in 198 first-class matches from 1949 to 1958, making his final appearance for the county against Gloucestershire at the County Ground, Southampton.

In his 198 matches for the county, Rayment scored 6,338 runs at a batting average of 20.31, with 23 half centuries, 4 centuries and a highest score of 126 against Gloucestershire in 1953.[1] His best season with the bat came in 1952 when he scored 1,056 runs at an average of 23.46, with three half centuries, two centuries and a high score of 106. He also made 1,000 runs exactly in the 1956 season.

Later life

He and his wife Betty were expert ballroom dancers, and ran a dancing school in Southampton from the late 1940s to the late 1950s.[2] He spent a year as a cricket coach with MCC at Lord's in 1959, and after that was "in turn teacher, estate agent, community worker, postgraduate student, property developer and psychotherapist".[3]

He died in Lymington Hospital on 27 October 2020.

References
  1. "Gloucestershire v Hampshire 1953". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. Chalke, Stephen (2011). The Way It Was: Glimpses of English cricket's past. Bath: Fairfield Books. pp. 114–16. ISBN 978-0-9568511-1-6.
  3. Chalke, pp. 274–75.
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