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| Full name | Myles Fallows de Vries | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1940 (age 84–85) Harwich, Essex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Berkshire | ||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,6 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Myles Fallows de Vries (born 1940) is a former English first-class cricketer.
Born at Harwich,de Vries played minor counties cricket for Berkshire in 1958,making two appearances in the Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall and Oxfordshire. [1] He later played first-class cricket in Kenya for a Coast Cricket Association XI against a touring Pakistan International Airlines team at Mombasa in 1964. [2] Batting twice during the match,de Vries was dismissed by Afaq Hussain for 4 runs in the Coast Cricket Association XI first-innings,while in their second-innings he was dismissed for a single run by Farooq Hamid. [3] He later moved to Thailand,where he is credited with starting the Chiang Mai Sixes in 1988. [4] [5] He was previously employed by New Zealand Insurance and played cricket for the Royal Bangkok Sports Club. [5] In recent years de Vries has been using a wheelchair. [5]