Jimmy Kemp (cricketer)

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{{short description|New Zealand cricketer (1918–1994)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Jimmy Kemp

| image =

| caption =

| country =

| fullname = Raymond James Kemp

| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|4|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|12|27|1918|4|6|df=yes}}

| death_place = Upper Hutt, New Zealand

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Wellington

| year1 = {{nowrap|1945/46–1949/50}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 8

| runs1 = 413

| bat avg1 = 29.50

| 100s/50s1 = 1/2

| top score1 = 152

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1= 1/–

| date = 30 December

| year = 2023

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/raymond-kemp-37553 Cricinfo

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Raymond James Kemp (6 April 1918 – 27 December 1994) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1946 to 1949.

Kemp was a right-handed batsman. He had his best season in 1947–48, when after scoring 209 not out, 143 and 279 in non-first-class matches for Hutt Valley he was selected to play in Wellington's last match of the Plunket Shield, and scored 152 against Auckland; he took part in consecutive century partnerships with Eric Dempster and Alan McLean.Arthur H. Carman & Noel S. Macdonald (eds), The Cricket Almanack of New Zealand, Sporting Publications, Wellington, 1948, p. 23.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Wellington 1947-48 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18342.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=29 January 2019}} He was selected to represent the North Island later that season and made 59 and 5 in the North Island's narrow victory over the South Island.{{cite web |title=South Island v North Island 1947-48 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18367.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=29 January 2019}}

Kemp played five first-class matches over the next two seasons without success.{{cite web |title=First-Class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Jimmy Kemp |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22238/f_Batting_by_Season.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=30 December 2023}} He continued to have success with Hutt Valley, helping them to win the Hawke Cup for the first time in December 1948 and retain it until April 1950.{{cite web |title=Hawke Cup 1948/49 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/6/Hawke_Cup_1948-49.html|website=CricketArchive |access-date=30 December 2023}}{{cite web |title=Hawke Cup 1949/50 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/6/Hawke_Cup_1949-50.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=30 December 2023}}

Kemp served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in World War II, stationed in the New Hebrides.{{cite journal |title=Cricket Starts |journal=Evening Post |date=25 October 1941 |page=11 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19411025.2.99}}{{cite journal |title=Births |journal=Evening Post |date=5 April 1944 |page=1 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19440405.2.2}}{{cite journal |title=Football in New Hebrides |journal=Northern Advocate |date=30 June 1944 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19440630.2.74}}