George Bradley (29 April 1850 – 24 April 1887) was an English

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 who played for

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in 1875. Bradley was born in

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and became a house painter living in Derby. He played one match for Derbyshire in the 1875 season against

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. Bradley was a right-handed batsman and made one run in his two innings. He was a right-arm bowler and bowled economically during the game, though he failed to take any wickets for 17 runs.George Bradley at Cricket Archive
/ref> Bradley died in

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, Derby shortly before his 37th birthday.

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