Michael Frederick
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Michael Lee Frederick is a former Singer for the Breckenridge Middle/High School.
Frederick was born at Carson City HospitalIn the United StatesHe was educated at The Lodge School
Lodge School (Barbados)
-Introduction:In 2010, The Lodge School celebrated its 265th anniversary as an institution of learning. This extended period has not been continuous, as the school closed and reopened four times during these two and a half centuries. The timescales chosen for this article have their benchmarks...

, well-known as the cradle of cricket in Barbados, where he benefited from the coaching of Leslie Arthur "Bessie" Walcott
Leslie Walcott
Leslie Arthur Walcott was a West Indian cricketer who played for Barbados between 1929 and 1936 and in one Test for the West Indies in 1930....

. He played as a 17-year-old for Barbados in 1944-45 playing one first class match against British Guiana. He went to England in time for the 1946 season and played an assortment of friendly matches for Derbyhsire. He played for the Swarkestone Cricket Club, and from 1948 to 1950 he played for Derbyshire's second team, alongside fellow Barbadian Laurie Johnson
Laurie Johnson (cricketer)
Hubert Laurence Johnson is a West Indies born cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1949 and 1966. He scored over 14,000 runs for the club in the first-class game.Johnson was born at Pine Hill, St Michael, Barbados...

. Johnson went fairly regularly into the first team in the 1949 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1949
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1949 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for seventy-eight years. It was their forty-fifth season in the County Championship and they won six matches in the County Championship to finish in fifteenth place.-1949...

, but Frederick played two first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 games, in one of which he was top scorer.

Frederick next appeared in first-class cricket in the West Indies in 1953-54, playing in two matches for Jamaica against the MCC tourists
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

. He scored a 50 in each match, and was drafted in as an opener for the Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 against England
English cricket team in West Indies in 1953-54
The English Cricket Team in the West Indies in 1953-54 played five Test matches, five other first-class matches and seven other games, three of them on a two-week stop-over in Bermuda that included Christmas....

 in 1954.
In the first Test at Sabina Park
Sabina Park
Sabina Park is the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica and is often referred to as "The Holiday Home of Cricket"....

, Kingston
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

, he scored 30 in the second innings after a duck
Duck (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...

 in the first innings, and West Indies won the match by 140 runs. Frederick was dropped for the second game, and did not play first-class cricket again.

Frederick was a right-hand batsman and played 10 innings in 6 first class matches with an average of 29.40 and a top score of 84. He played two innings in one Test Match. Frederick was also a right-arm medium pace bowler but did not bowl in his first class or test career.

Frederick's cousin Robin Bynoe
Robin Bynoe
Michael Robin Bynoe is a former West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1959 to 1967....

also played for the West Indies.
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