Stanley Clarke Gobey (18 June 1916 – 20 November 1992) was an English

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er who played in two matches for

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...

in 1946. He was born in

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and died at Harpole,

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. Gobey played in second eleven cricket for Warwickshire in the 1930s as an

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left-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler, but his only first-class cricket came in two matches inside a week in the difficult 1946 season, when Warwickshire lacked players because of slow demobilisation after the Second World War; he was not successful in either game, scoring only two runs in three innings and failing to take a wicket in his two overs of bowling.

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