Ronald George Alphonso Headley (born June 29, 1939, 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...

, Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

) is a former West Indian

West Indian cricket team

The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played in two Tests

Test cricket

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 and one ODI in 1973. An opening batsman, in first-class cricket

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...

 he scored 21,695 runs at an average of 31.12, with 32 hundreds and a highest score of 187.

Headley spent most of his career in England, playing for Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...

 from 1958 to 1974. He was capped by the county in 1961, and was awarded a benefit season

Benefit season

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 in 1972 which raised just over £10,000.
In 1971 he scored 187 and 108 against Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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, becoming the first Worcestershire player to score a century in both innings of a first-class match since Edwin Cooper

Edwin Cooper

Edwin Cooper was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 249 first-class matches for Worcestershire between 1936 and 1951...

 in 1946.

In 1973, following an injury to Lawrence Rowe

Lawrence Rowe

Lawrence George Rowe is a former West Indian cricketer.Lawrence, also known as "Yagga", was an elegant right-handed batsman described by Michael Holding, his team mate, as "the best batsman I ever saw". It was felt that his ability was so extraordinary that Sobers believed he could have been the...

, Headley was co-opted from Worcestershire into the West Indies touring team

West Indian cricket team in England in 1973

The West Indian cricket team in England in 1973 played 17 first-class matches including three Tests. The team won the series against England by two matches to nil, with one drawn game...

. He played seven first-class matches for the West Indians, including the first and second matches of a three-match Test series. His 42 in the second innings of the first match was his highest Test score. He also played in the second of two One Day International matches for the Prudential Trophy.

After retiring from playing, Headley went into coaching.

His father was George Headley

George Headley

George Alphonso Headley was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches, mostly before the Second World War. Considered one of the best batsmen to play for West Indies and one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Headley also represented Jamaica and played professional club cricket in...

, who played 22 Tests for West Indies, while his son Dean Headley

Dean Headley

Dean Warren Headley is an English cricketer.He comes from a famous cricketing family, being the son of Ron Headley and grandson of George Headley. He was the first Test cricketer to be both the son and grandson of Test cricketers...

 played 15 Tests and 13 ODIs for England

English cricket team

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. This was the first case of three consecutive generations of the same family playing Test cricket.