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Hunter was married to
Maureen and had three sons: Alan, Neil and Graeme. All three played cricket for the first team at Lurgan. Alan and Neil played in the first team of Portadown Rugby Football Club, as did his grandson Stephen.
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at the club and general improvements to the grounds. His time on the committee included a key period when the club merged with Lurgan Rugby Club and moved to
Pollock Park in 1980. Hunter died on 9 December 2020.
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of 29.97, taking five wickets in an innings twice. In first-class cricket, he scored 202 runs at an average of 11.22 and took 19 wickets at an average of 23.42. He took five wickets in an innings once.
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player. He played for
Ireland in both sports. In cricket he won 28 international caps and played in 11 first-class matches. In rugby he played ten times for Ireland in the
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in the 1960s. He was top scorer for Lurgan in the 1972 Senior
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and the MCC. He played just once in 1960, against
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and played international hockey and football for the
Ireland schoolboys teams. After leaving school he worked in insurance.
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in June 1963. He remained a semi-regular in the team over the following four years, playing internationals against
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at the age of 17 and won the Senior Cup Final in his first season. In 1957 his score of 133 helped
Lisburn win the
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and remains one of the best individual scores in the final of the competition. Hunter moved to
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Hunter played cricket, using his 6 feet (1.8 m) height to his advantage as a right-handed
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Hunter served on the committee of Lurgan
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Raymond Hunter was born in
Belfast on 3 April 1938. He attended Wallace High School in
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He played four times for Ireland in 1959; against Scotland,
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later that month. He finished the year with matches against
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British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Ireland
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in July 1958, before making his first-class debut against
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in September 1965 and his last game for Ireland against
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matches. Hunter made his debut for Ireland against the
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967:People educated at Wallace High School, Lisburn
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505:List of Irish cricket and rugby union players
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275:William Raymond Hunter
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361:first-class
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319:medium pace
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404:Australia
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175:Top score
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754:K. Jones
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303:Lisburn
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