Harry Halliday
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Harry Halliday was an English
English people
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 first-class cricket
First-class cricket
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er, who played 182 games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

 between 1938 and 1953. He also appeared in three games for the Combined Services
Combined Services cricket team
The Combined Services cricket team represents the British armed forces. The team played at first-class level in England for more than forty years in the mid-twentieth century. Their first first-class match was against Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1920, while their last was against Oxford...

, once for the MCC
Marylebone Cricket Club
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 and once for an 'Over 33' side in first-class cricket.

Halliday was born in Pudsey
Pudsey
Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England. Once an independent town, it was incorporated into the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in 1974, and is located midway between Bradford and Leeds city centres. It has a population of 32,391....

, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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, England
England
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, and was a useful county all-rounder
All-rounder
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, Halliday scored 8,556 runs at 31.80, with 12 centuries to his name, including three against Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
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. His highest score, 144, came against Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 at Queen's Park, Chesterfield
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
Queen's Park is a county cricket ground located in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England and lies within a park in the centre of the town established for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897...

 in 1950. He scored 54 fifties and took 144 catches. His occasional off breaks took 107 wickets at 29.91, with a best of 6 for 79 against Derbyshire at Bramall Lane in 1952. He also claimed 5 for 73 against Kent
Kent County Cricket Club
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.

He won his Yorkshire cap in 1948. Halliday scored 1,000 runs in a season four times, his best season coming in 1950 when he scored 1,484 runs at 38.05, although with only one century. After his retirement from the first-class game he served as coach to Scarborough College
Scarborough College
Scarborough College is an independent day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 3-18 years. It is located in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England and was founded in 1898. The school has been an International Baccalaureate World School since June 2006...

 and Scarborough Cricket Club
Scarborough Cricket Club
Founded:1947-48.1st Grade Premierships:1976-77, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009-10.Sunday League Premierships:2002-03.WACA Club Champions:1993-94, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2003–04, 2004-05....

.

Halliday died in August 1967 in Stanley
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, Wakefield
Wakefield
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, Yorkshire, aged 47.

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