Gilbert Martin ("Gilly") Reay (24 January 1887 – 31 January 1967) was an English
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
er active 1913–23 who played for
Surrey
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. He was born in
Wallington, and died in
Croydon
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. He played 29 matches as an amateur either side of
World War I
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. His best season in first class cricket came in 1920, when he took 42 wickets at an average of 18.71. He appeared in the
Gentlemen v Players
Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ...
match of 1923.
1887 births
1967 deaths
English cricketers
Surrey cricketers
Gentlemen cricketers
Cricketers from Surrey
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