George Edward Hartley was an English

English people

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 cricket

Cricket

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er. Hartley was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow

Spin bowling

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. He was born in Walsden

Walsden

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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Hartley made a single in the 1935 Minor Counties Championship for Denbighshire

Denbighshire County Cricket Club

Denbighshire County Cricket Club was a county cricket club based in the historic Welsh county of Denbighshire, that played in the Minor Counties Championship for five seasons from 1930 to 1935 . The side was unsuccessful, and in its final season it lost each of its eight matches, six of them by an...

 against Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

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. Later, following World War II

World War II

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, Hartley made his only first-class

First-class cricket

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 appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 against Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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 in 1946. In this match, he scored 3 runs in the MCC first-innings, before being dismissed by Barry Trapnell

Barry Trapnell

Barry Maurice Waller Trapnell, born 18 May 1924 in Hampstead, London, played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1946 and later in the same year for Middlesex CCC.As a batsman, he was right-handed, and as a bowler, he was right-arm medium pace....

, while in their second-innings he scored the same number of runs and was dismissed by the same bowler.

He died in Guildford

Guildford

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, Surrey

Surrey

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 on 25 August 1992.

External links

• George Hartley at ESPNcricinfo
• George Hartley at CricketArchive
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