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Iain Gallaway

QSO MBE
Personal information
Full name
Iain Watson Gallaway
Born (1922-12-26) 26 December 1922 (age 101)
Dunedin, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1946–1948Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 3
Runs scored 26
Batting average 8.66
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 22
Catches/stumpings 7/1
Source: CricketArchive, 31 January 2011

Iain Watson Gallaway QSO MBE (born 26 December 1922) is a former commentator on the New Zealand radio station Radio Sport, and a former first-class cricketer and lawyer. Following the death of Alan Burgess in January 2021, Gallaway became New Zealand's oldest living first-class cricketer.[1]

Life and career

Gallaway was born in Dunedin and attended Christ's College, Christchurch.[2] He served in the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II, patrolling the Atlantic and the North Sea on a D-class cruiser.[3][2]

He played three first-class cricket matches for Otago between 1946 and 1948 as a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.[4] In his first match against Wellington he took six catches.

After World War II he studied law at the University of New Zealand in Dunedin[5] and worked as a lawyer in the Dunedin firm that is now Gallaway Cook Allan.[6]

In a radio commentary career that extended from 1953 to 1992, he broadcast about 500 rugby matches and numerous cricket matches, mostly from the Carisbrook ground in Dunedin.[7][8] Gallaway is now official patron of the Otago Cricket Association.

In the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gallaway was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to rugby and cricket.[9] In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service.[10] He was awarded life membership of New Zealand Cricket in 2010.[11] He received a Halberg Award for services to sport in 1999.[3]

His book Not a Cloud in the Sky: The Autobiography of Iain Gallaway was published in 1997.[12] Gallaway's son Garth is a cricket commentator on Radio Sport and a lawyer in Christchurch.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Alan Burgess, New Zealand first-class cricketer and World War II veteran, dies aged 100". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Rugby and Cricket: New Zealanders in England". Otago Daily Times: 2. 8 June 1944.
  3. ^ a b "My Life at war". Critic. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Iain Gallaway". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  5. ^ "Successful students in law examinations". Gisborne Herald: 4. 18 April 1949.
  6. ^ "Sports law". Gallaway Cook Allan. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  7. ^ Sports broadcasting: Gallaway to be honoured Retrieved 30 May 2013
  8. ^ Edwards, Brent (22 July 2011). "Greatest moments in Otago sport - Number 100". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  9. ^ "No. 47551". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 3 June 1978. p. 6271.
  10. ^ "No. 50553". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 14 June 1986. p. 32.
  11. ^ "Cricket: Gallaway made life member". Otago Daily Times. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  12. ^ Gallaway, Iain (1997). Not a Cloud in the Sky: The Autobiography of Iain Gallaway. ISBN 9781869502645. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Garth Gallaway". The Arts Foundation. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
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