George Frederick Linney (18 November 1869 – 5 November 1927) was an English-born

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er who played in a single first-class match for

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in the 1912/13 Australian season. He was born in

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, Surrey and died at

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. Linney was a 43-year-old tail-end batsman and wicketkeeper who played in the one-off match against

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in March 1913 in which Herbie Collins made the highest score, 282, of his entire cricket career. New South Wales scored 614 for five wickets in their single innings before declaring; Linney had no part in any of the wickets and he scored 1 not out and 4 in Tasmania's two innings. In 1914, Linney attempted to raise a Tasmanian cricket team to tour England to play matches against public schools,

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, and the universities, but despite encouragement from the

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(MCC), the idea was abandoned as too expensive. Linney was a schoolmaster and taught at The Friends' School, Hobart and at Stramongate School at Kendal in England, both of them

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schools. George Linney's son

Keith Linney Charles Keith Linney (26 August 1912 – 12 October 1992) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1931 to 1937. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. His father George, who was born in Guildfo ...

, born in

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, went in the other direction and played first-class cricket for

in England in more than 30 games across the 1930s.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Linney, George 1869 births 1927 deaths English cricketers Tasmania cricketers Cricketers from Guildford

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