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Colin Bonitto

Jamaican cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ101208314 ↗
Source-derived summary

Colin Bonitto (1918 – July 1974) was a Jamaican cricketer. He played in seven first-class matches for the Jamaican cricket team from 1946 and 1953.

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The public source identifies “Colin Bonitto” as jamaican cricketer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Colin, Bonitto and Jamaican.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1974, 1946, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Colin, Bonitto and Jamaican providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q101208314. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1974, 1946 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Colin Bonitto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.