Latest update January 17th, 2025 6:30 AM
Linden Fraser says hisaction was never reported
Former Guyana fast bowler Berbician Linden Fraser played four First-Class matches, three of them at senior Inter-County level before making his Regional First-Class debut in 1984 against Jamaica.
Linden Fraser
In First-Class cricket Fraser took three wickets at an Average of 85.00 and strike-rate of one wicket every 123 balls.
With the bat, the former Christ Church Secondary School and GCC player, batted six times in First-Class cricket and scored 31 runs with a highest score of 11 not out.
He also played two for the Guyana U-19 team before playing for several seasons in England in the Lancashire Leagues.
On Tuesday December 4, I wrote a story headlined ‘Local Umpires helping to produce more Beatons’ in which I mentioned Fraser as one of the bowlers who was reported for suspect actions when they played for Guyana.
Back in 1997 when I was playing for Berbice in Senior Inter-County four-day competition I was doing a story for the Stabroek News about Guyanese bowlers who I felt should have played more First-Class matches.
I asked the late Leslie Amsterdam, who was the Manager of that Berbice team about Fraser, who I had seen bowl in Georgetown.
Mr Amsterdam said Fraser had some pace but his action was reported. Unfortunately Mr Amsterdam died two years later when he fell into the Berbice River attempting to catch the Berbice Ferry.
Fraser, who now resides in New York, contacted me yesterday to say his action was never reported in his lone First-Class game for Guyana in which he opened the bowling with former Berbice and Malteenoes pacer Ray Joseph.
I had seen Fraser bowl with a ‘suspect action’ in local club cricket but since Mr Amsterdam has passed away I have no way of verifying what Mr Amsterdam’s said.
And knowing Fraser personally and judging from his character I have no reason to doubt him when he says his action was never reported.
I hope that Fraser, who is a certified Cricket Coach, accepts my deepest apologies for in anyway damaging his excellent work as Coach in the USA by printing what I was told in the Kaieteur News, paper and its online version. (Sean Devers)
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