Thomas Leslie Brierley (15 June 1910 – 7 January 1989) was an English and Canadian

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. A curiosity of his county career is that his highest career score (116) was scored twice, one playing for Glamorgan, and once playing against Glamorgan. Before the

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, Brierley played his county cricket for

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. After the war he moved to play for

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playing for three seasons before emigrating to

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. He took up posts as a coach with Vancouver Cricket Club, and as groundsman and economics teacher at

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. He was considered to be one of the leading cricket coaches in Canada, and continued playing, winning a place in the Canadian national team. He played five further first-class matches for Canada in the 1950s, including a return to the UK in 1954 as part of a Canadian touring team.

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