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Full name | John Giles Upton Daniels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | 25 January 1942||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Rupert Daniels (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1964 | Combined Services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1964 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 30 July 2011 |
John Giles Upton Daniels (born 25 January 1942) is a former English cricketer. Daniels was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire and educated at Winchester College, where he represented the college cricket team. [1]
Daniels entered the Royal Armoured Corps with the rank of second lieutenant in 1961. [2] He later made his only first-class cricket appearance for Gloucestershire against Oxford University in 1964. In this match, he scored 15 runs in Gloucestershire's first-innings, before being dismissed by Ted Fillary, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 4 runs by Tim Razzall. [3] In 1964, he made a single first-class appearance for the Combined Services against Oxford University. [4] He scored 10 runs in the Combined Services first-innings, before being dismissed by John Martin, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 22 runs by Tim Razzall. [5] Daniels held the rank of lieutenant still within the Royal Armoured Corps by 1965, [6] however on 15 April 1967 he resigned his commission. [7]
His brother, Rupert, played first-class cricket for Oxford University. As of 2011, Daniels and his brother run a company called Edgbarne Trust Limited, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. [8]