John Logan Jolly (27 July 1912 – 9 July 1995) was a New Zealand sportsman who played representative rugby union and

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. Jolly was born at

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in 1912 and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin. He worked as a mining engineer.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 74. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played provincial rugby for the Otago Rugby Football Union and appeared in one first-class cricket match for the Otago cricket team during the 1933–34 season.John Jolly

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. Retrieved 15 May 2016. Opening the bowling against Auckland at

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, he failed to take a wicket and scored 12 runs in the match.John Jolly
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in Australia in 1995 aged 82. An obituary was published in the 2003 edition of the ''New Zealand Cricket Alamnack''.

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* 1912 births 1995 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers People from Cromwell, New Zealand People educated at Otago Boys' High School New Zealand rugby union players Otago rugby union players {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1910s-stub