John Llewellyn "Tim" Heaney (14 August 1914 – 14 July 1996) was a South African

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er who played

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for

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, from 1935 to 1952. Tim Heaney was an accurate slow-left-arm spin bowler. In his first

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match after

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he took 6 for 45 off 28 eight-ball overs in the first innings against

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. A week earlier, in a first-class

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against

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, he had taken 6 for 73 off 33 overs in a match Transvaal lost by an innings.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heaney, Tim 1914 births 1996 deaths Sportspeople from Mossel Bay South African cricketers Gauteng cricketers Cricketers from the Western Cape