Reginald Ernest Thoy was an English cricket

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er. A right-handed batsman, he played two first-class

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 matches in the 1950s.

Biography

Born in Singapore

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 in 1921, Thoy's first recorded cricket was two matches for the Straits Settlements

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 against the Federated Malay States

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 in 1939 and 1940.

In England

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 after the war, he played a Minor Counties Championship

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 match for the Kent

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 Second XI against the Surrey

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 Second XI in 1948, though he never played for the first team. He later played two first-class matches for DR Jardine's XI

Douglas Jardine

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 against Oxford University

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 in 1955 and 1957.

He died in Maidstone

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, Kent

Kent

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 in 1993, though his obituary in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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incorrectly gives his year of death as 1994.