Francis Ayles (30 March 1880 – 18 June 1939) was an Australian

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 and football umpire. Ayles, a batsman, was the

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of Port Melbourne Cricket Club when he was appointed by the Otago Cricket Association as a batting coach in November 1908. He played three first-class matches for

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as a batsman in 1908–09, scoring 81 runs at an average of 20.25. He opened the batting in Otago's match against Hawke's Bay in January 1909, scoring 47 and putting on 176 for the first wicket with

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. Ayles returned to Melbourne in April 1909. Ayles was also an

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football umpire. He umpired 13 matches in the Victorian Football League between 1908 and 1919, and was appointed field umpire for the Tasmanian Football League in 1911. Before turning to umpiring he played for Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayles, Francis 1880 births 1939 deaths Australian cricketers Australian cricket coaches Otago cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne Australian Football League umpires People from Port Melbourne