Iain Gallaway
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Full name | Iain Watson Gallaway | ||||||||||||||
Born |
Dunedin, New Zealand | 26 December 1922||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1946–1948 | Otago | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 31 January 2011 |
Iain Watson Gallaway QSO MBE (born 26 November 1922) is a former commentator on the New Zealand radio station Radio Sport. He was born at Dunedin.
He also played three first-class cricket matches for Otago between 1946 and 1948 as a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.[1] In his first match against Wellington he took six catches.
In a commentary career that extended from the early 1950s to the early 1990s, he broadcast about 500 rugby matches and numerous cricket matches, mostly from the Carisbrook ground in Dunedin.[2] Gallaway is now official patron of the Otago Cricket Association.
Gallaway was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to rugby and cricket in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours.[3] In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Gallaway was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service.[4]
He worked as a lawyer in the Dunedin firm that is now Gallaway Cook Allan.
His book Not a Cloud in the Sky: The Autobiography of Iain Gallaway came out in 1997.
Gallaway's son Garth has followed in his father's footsteps and is currently a cricket commentator on Radio Sport and a lawyer in Christchurch.
See also
References
- ↑ "Iain Gallaway". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
- ↑ Sports broadcasting: Gallaway to be honoured Retrieved 30 May 2013
- ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 47551, 3 June 1978. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 50553, 13 June 1986. Retrieved 21 January 2013.