Allan Victor Wiles (29 September 1920 – 31 May 2008) was a New Zealand
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
footballer and
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He represented
New Zealand in rugby league.
Cricket career
Wiles played five
first-class matches for
Auckland
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during the 1946/47 season.
Rugby league career
Wiles played for the
Mount Albert club in the
Auckland Rugby League
The Auckland Rugby League (ARL) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is responsible for rugby league in the region, including both club and school rugby league. It began in 1910 when the fi ...
competition and also represented
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...
.
[Coffey, John and Bernie Wood ''Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909–2009'', 2009. .]
In 1948, he was named for
New Zealand
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and
toured Australia. He played in one of the two test matches, becoming
Kiwi #312.
In 1951, during the
French tour of New Zealand, Wiles was part of the Auckland side that lost to France 10 – 15.
See also
* List of Auckland representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, list A or Twenty20 cricket for Auckland cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons.
A
* John Ackla ...
References
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1920 births
2008 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Cricketers from Auckland
New Zealand rugby league players
New Zealand national rugby league team players
New Zealand sportsmen
Rugby league centres
Mount Albert Lions players
Auckland rugby league team players
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