Frederick William Stanley (5 November 1923 – 22 October 1993) was a New Zealand

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er. He played

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for

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between the 1950–51 and 1953–54 seasons. Stanley was born at

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in 1923. He worked as an upholsterer.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010''. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) A right-arm medium-pace bowler who played club cricket for

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in Dunedin, Stanley made his first-class debut for Otago in a January 1951 Plunket Shield match against

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at Carisbrook. Opening the bowling, he went wicketless in Wellington's first innings but took a

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in the second innings as the side was dismissed for a score of only 82―a performance described by ''

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'' as "brilliant bowling".Cricket: Otago wins by 251 runs, ''

'', volume LXXXVII, issue 26317, 11 January 1951, p. 6.
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at Papers Past. Retrieved 5 July 2023.) He played against the touring England Test team later in the season and went on to play regularly for the representative side for four seasons, taking a total of 46 wickets, including another two five-wicket hauls.Frederick Stanley
CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 July 2023. Stanley died at Dunedin in 1993. He was aged 69. An obituary was published in the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack'' in 1994.

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