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Batting style
  
Right-handed

Role
  
Cricket Player

Name
  
Ian Folley


1991
  
1982–1990
  
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Born
  
9 January 1963 (
1963-01-09
)

Died
  
August 30, 1993, Whitehaven, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Bowling style
  
Left-arm orthodox spin

Ian Folley (9 January 1963 – 30 August 1993) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler, initially a medium-pacer and later a spinner.

Folley started his career as a seamer in 1982, playing for Lancashire. He switched to spin bowling after coaching and encouragement from Jack Bond. Over the next two seasons, he averaged less than thirty with the ball, taking 129 wickets, and in one match, had match figures of 12/57. Lined up for an England team spot, he suffered an injury to his left arm, and quit the game, after tours to Jamaica and Zimbabwe.

In 1991 he was given a second chance, playing for Derbyshire, but his first-team performances did not live up to his earlier performances.

Two years later, playing for Whitehaven, Folley was hit underneath the eye in a freak accident while batting in a match against Workington, and was taken to local hospital for a minor operation to repair his perforated eyeball There, while under anaesthesia, he suffered a heart attack and died. The hospital later admitted negligence. He was thirty years old.

References

Ian Folley Wikipedia