Leslie Giles Explained

Leslie Giles
Fullname:Leslie Albert Giles
Birth Date:2 January 1906
Birth Place:Christchurch, New Zealand
Death Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Batting:Right-handed
Club1:Otago
Year1:1929/30
Date:12 May
Year:2016
Source:http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37154.html ESPNcricinfo

Leslie Albert Giles (2 January 1906  - 1 June 1981) was a New Zealand sportsman. He played one first-class cricket match for Otago in 1929/30.[1]

Giles was born at Christchurch in 1906. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin and later worked in the railway industry. As well as cricket, he played rugby union for Otago, playing in 17 representative matches for the province between 1927 and 1931. Following his death in 1981, obituaries were published in the New Zealand Cricket Almanack and in the following year's Wisden.[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Leslie Giles . 12 May 2016 . ESPNCricinfo.
  2. McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 56. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  3. Crampton D (1987) New Zealand cricketers/rugby footballers, The Cricket Statistician, no. 58, summer 1987, p. 35. (Available online at The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 1 March 2024.)