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Full name | Geoffrey Allan Wilfred Blakely | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ranfurly, Central Otago, New Zealand | 30 October 1959|||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Sam Blakely (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1980/81–1984/85 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,30 January 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Allan Wilfred Blakely (born 30 October 1959) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played nine first-class and two List A matches for Otago between 1980 and 1985. [1]
Blakely was an opening batsman. His best two first-class matches were both against Auckland in 1980–81. In the first,at Eden Park,he made 74 and 22; [2] in the second,at Carisbrook,he made 26 and 43. [3] In all first-class matches he made 325 runs at an average of 18.05. [4] Blakely also appeared in two List A matches for Otago,scoring 55 runs at an average of 27.50 with a top score of 44. [1]
As a rugby union footballer,Blakely made one appearance playing at lock for Otago Sub-Unions in 1981. [5]
Two of Blakely's children have also played representative cricket for Otago:his son Sam,has played five List A matches for Otago,debuting in 2012/13;and his daughter Caitlin has made over 100 women's List A and Twenty20 appearances for Otago since the 2012/13 season. [6] [7] [8] It is believed that this could be the first instance of a father,son and daughter all representing Otago in top-level cricket. [6]
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