Raymond Windsor

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Raymond Thomas Albert Windsor (born 9 February 1943) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset in 1969.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3898/3898.html| title = Raymond Windsor|publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2011-06-12}} He was born at Wellington, Somerset.

Windsor was a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler who made a lot of runs in club cricket for Wellington and Taunton.{{Cite book | title = Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who | author = David Foot | author2 = Ivan Ponting | name-list-style = amp | edition = 1993 | publisher = Redcliffe Books | isbn = 1-872971-23-7 | page = 124 }} In August 1969, playing for Somerset's second eleven in a Minor Counties Championship match against Cornwall he hit 140 out of 225 in Somerset's first innings.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/93/93193.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset Second XI v Cornwall | date = 1969-08-04 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 2011-06-13}} That earned him a fairly instant call-up into Somerset's first team for a List A Sunday League match against Yorkshire, but Somerset won easily by nine wickets, and he was not required to bat or to bowl.{{cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/30/30395.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Yorkshire| date = 1969-08-10| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com| accessdate = 27 March 2024}} Later in the same month, he was picked for a single County Championship match against Sussex; he batted at No 7 and was out, bowled by Tony Greig, without scoring in the first innings, and the second Somerset innings finished at 220 for four wickets, so he did not bat a second time.{{cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/30/30453.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Sussex| date = 1969-08-23| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com| accessdate = 27 March 2024}} He was not picked for the first team again, though he continued to appear in sporadic second eleven games to 1978.