Ian Folley (9 January 1963 – 30 August 1993) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler, initially a medium-pacer and later a spinner. Folley started his career as a seamer in 1982, playing for

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. He switched to spin bowling after coaching and encouragement from Jack Bond. Over the next two seasons, he averaged less than thirty with the ball, taking 129 wickets, and in one match, had match figures of 12/57. Lined up for an

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team spot, he suffered an injury to his left arm, and quit the game, after tours to

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and

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. In 1991 he was given a second chance, playing for

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, but his first-team performances did not live up to his earlier performances. Two years later, playing for Whitehaven, Folley was hit underneath the eye in a freak accident while batting in a match against Workington, and was taken to local hospital for a minor operation to repair his perforated eyeball. There, while under anaesthesia, he suffered a heart attack and died. The hospital later admitted negligence. He was thirty years old.

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at Cricket Archive 1963 births 1993 deaths English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Lancashire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Sport deaths in England Cricket deaths Cricketers from Burnley 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-cricket-bio-1960s-stub

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