Hartley Kelly Joynt (14 June 1938 – 12 May 2021) was an Australian

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er. He played seventeen first-class matches for

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between 1960/61 and 1964/65, scoring 48 on debut in Western Australia's victory over the touring

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. His highest score was 81 for a Western Australia Combined XI against the

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in 1963/64. Joynt later became a journalist with

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