Elvis Leroy Reifer was a West Indian cricket

Cricket

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er. He was a left-handed batsman and bowled left-arm fast-medium

Seam bowling

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.

Reifer made his List A debut for Barbados in 1984. The same season he was signed by Hampshire County Cricket Club

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, despite having no first-class

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 experience. In his first match for Hampshire he took eight wickets against Cambridge University

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. Despite this promising start his bowling average started to rise. After just one season with Hampshire he was released and went on to play only one more first-class game for Barbados

Barbados

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, before being released at the end of the 1986 West Indian cricket season.

Reifer was the nephew of former West Indies captain

Captain (cricket)

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 Floyd Reifer

Floyd Reifer

Floyd Lamonte Reifer is a Barbadian cricketer. He is a left-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler....

 and the father of Raymon Reifer

Raymon Reifer

Raymon Anton Reifer is a Barbadian cricketer. Reifer is a left-handed batsman who bowls left-arm medium pace. He was born in Saint Lucy, Barbados....

. He died in his sleep in Bridgetown

Bridgetown

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, Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

 on 26 August 2011.

External links

• Elvis Reifer at ESPNcricinfo
• Elvis Reifer at CricketArchive
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