Raymond Thomas Dowker (6 July 1919 – 17 December 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury between 1949 and 1957.
A right-handed batsman, Dowker played 24 games – scoring 1,147 runs at 30.18 including one century, 122 against Auckland on 7 January 1955.
[2] With 366 runs at an average of 45.75, he was the highest scorer in the Plunket Shield in the 1954–55 season.
[3] In 1955-56 he captained Canterbury to outright victory in all four of their Plunket Shield matches, thus winning the trophy.
[4] Dowker was also a successful football player and won the 1945 Chatham Cup with Western AFC.