Vernon Aubrey Clinton McArley (29 September 1923 – 4 July 2019) was a New Zealand

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er. He played in six first-class matches for

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between the 1947–48 and 1957–58 seasons. McArley was born at

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in 1923 and educated at

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in the city.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 82. 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 served in the

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during

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and played some cricket whilst in service.Vernon A. C. McArley
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'', 12 May 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2023. Following the war McArley made his first-class debut for Otago in a March 1948 match against the touring Fiji national cricket team played at Carisbrook. Opening the bowling he took two wickets in the match and made scores of 27 and 11

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. The 27 runs he scored in his first innings in top-level cricket remained his highest score as a batsman. He went on to play in all four of Otago's 1951–52 Plunket Shield fixtures taking only one wicket, before making a single representative appearance against

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in January 1958, taking three wickets, his best return as a bowler in first-class cricket. McArley worked as a teacher and then as the principal of DNI school. He died at Dunedin in 2019 at the age of 95.

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