George Arthur Buckley (3 February 1889 – 1 December 1935) 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 first-class cricket for

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in 1921. Buckley was born in

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, near

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. He made three minor Counties Championship appearances in 1909 for

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. In 1913 he was playing for Keighley and Craven District, and was selected for

against

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but had to withdraw because of injury.Ashfield District Council - Sutton-in-Ashfield Cricketers
/ref> He made his first-class debut and only appearance for Derbyshire against

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in June 1921. His batting scores were 8 and 2, and he bowled 10 overs without taking a wicket. Buckley was a right-handed batsman and scored a total of ten runs in two innings in one first-class match. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and took no wickets in 10 overs.George Buckley at Cricket Archive
/ref> Buckley became a director of Sheffield United Cricket and Football Club. He died in

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aged 46.

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