Simon Andrew Curley was an Irish cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. A left-handed batsman he made his debut for the Ireland cricket team against Yorkshire

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 in June 1948 and went on to play for them on eight occasions, his last game against South Africa in July 1951.

Of his matches for Ireland, five had first-class

First-class cricket

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 status. He scored 208 runs at an average of 14.86, with a top score of 43 against Scotland in July 1948.