John_Daley_(cricketer)

John Daley (cricketer)

John Daley (cricketer)

English cricketer and greyhound trainer

John Valiant Daley (1 February 1906 – 14 June 1986), was an English first-class cricketer and a greyhound trainer.

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Personal life

He was born in Beccles; died in Margate.[1]

Cricket career

He played for Surrey County Cricket Club from 1936 until 1938.

Greyhound racing

He trained a greyhound called Good Worker that won the 1948 Laurels, Silver Salver and Wimbledon Two-Year Old Produce Stakes. The following year the same greyhound won the Champion Stakes.[2]

He was attached as a trainer to Ramsgate Stadium at the time but in 1949 he relinquished his licence to become a cricket coach.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    John Daley at ESPNcricinfo
  2. [2]
    Genders, Roy (1981). The Encyclopedia of Greyhound Racing. Pelham Books Ltd. ISBN 07207-1106-1.
  3. [3]
    Genders, Roy (1975). The Greyhound and Racing Greyhound. Page Brothers (Norwich). ISBN 0-85020-0474.


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