columns catches/stumpings year hidedeliveries birth_date country club batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs s/s matches article_title
1 7/1 1946 -- 1948 2011 true 26 december 1922 new zealand otago right-handed iain gallaway iain watson gallaway dunedin , new zealand first-class wicket-keeper http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/21/21926/21926.html cricketarchive 1922 12 26 yes 26 0/0 3 iain gallaway

iain gallaway

iain watson gallaway , -lrb- born 26 november 1922 -rrb- , 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 .
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 .
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 .
in the 1986 queen 's birthday honours , gallaway was made a companion of the queen 's service order for community service .
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 .
