Jim Galley

Jim Galley
Personal information
Full name James Martyn Galley
Born (1944-10-04)4 October 1944
Bristol, England
Died 4 October 2012(2012-10-04) (aged 68)
Bath, Somerset, England
Batting style Right-handed batsman
Role Batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1969 Somerset
First-class debut 16 August 1969 Somerset v Yorkshire
Last First-class 12 September 1969 Somerset v Kent
Only List A 17 August 1969  Somerset v Derbyshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 3 1
Runs scored 27 8
Batting average 5.40 8.00
100s/50s / /
Top score 17 8
Balls bowled
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 1/ /
Source: CricketArchive, 31 December 2009

James Martyn Galley, born at Bristol on 4 October 1944, played first-class cricket for Somerset in three matches in the 1969 season. He also played in one List A match for Somerset.

Galley was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He played for Somerset's second eleven as a batsman from 1964 to 1973 in the Second Eleven Championship and Minor Counties Championship. His only first-class and List A appearances for the Somerset first team came towards the end of the 1969 season, in which Somerset finished at the bottom of the County Championship for the first time since 1955.[1] Galley featured prominently in a close finish in his first match, against Yorkshire at Headingley, when he and Roy Palmer played out 15 overs from Test bowlers Don Wilson and Geoff Cope without scoring to save the match.[2] But overall, he had little success, making just 27 runs in six innings, with a top score of 17 in his final first-class match against Kent.[3]

Galley reappeared in Minor Counties cricket with Wiltshire in 1980.[4]

Galley was also a well-known rugby union player, appearing at scrum-half for Bath and Somerset.

Galley died at Bath on 4 October 2012.[5]

References

  1. "First-class Matches played by Jim Galley". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  2. "Yorkshire in 1969". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1970 ed.). Wisden. p. 622.
  3. "Scorecard: Kent v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1969-09-10. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  4. "Minor Counties Matches played by Jim Galley". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  5. "Sportsman served clubs as player and administrator". www.thisisbath.co.uk. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
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