Leslie Albert Giles (2 January 1906 – 1 June 1981) was a New Zealand sportsman. He played one

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match for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

in 1929/30. Giles was born at

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in 1906. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School in

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and later worked in the railway industry. As well as cricket, he played

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for

, playing in 17 representative matches for the province between 1927 and 1931. Following his death in 1981, obituaries were published in the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack'' and in the following year's '' Wisden''.Crampton D (1987) New Zealand cricketers/rugby footballers, ''The Cricket Statistician'', no. 58, summer 1987, p. 35.
Available online
at The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 1 March 2024.)

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* 1906 births 1981 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Christchurch People educated at Otago Boys' High School New Zealand rugby union players Otago rugby union players {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1900s-stub