Vernon McArley

{{Short description|New Zealand cricketer (1923–2019)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Vernon McArley

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| country = New Zealand

| fullname = Vernon Aubrey Clinton McArley

| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|9|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|7|4|1923|9|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Dunedin, New Zealand

| nickname =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| role =

| club1 = Otago

| year1 = {{nowrap|1947/48–1957/58}}

| date = 15 May

| year = 2016

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37843.html ESPNcricinfo

}}

Vernon Aubrey Clinton McArley (29 September 1923 – 4 July 2019) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in six first-class matches for Otago between the 1947–48 and 1957–58 seasons.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37843.html |title=Vernon McArley |access-date=15 May 2016 |publisher=ESPNCricinfo}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.nzc.nz/Players/22/22408/22408.html |title=Vern McArley |publisher=New Zealand Cricket |access-date=26 April 2021}}

McArley was born at Dunedin in 1923 and educated at Otago Boys High School in the city.McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 82. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II and played some cricket whilst in service.[https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/195149 Vernon A. C. McArley], Online Cenotaph, Auckland Museum. Retrieved 12 November 2023.Elder V (2016) [https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/students-keep-cycle-generosity-going Students keep cycle of generosity going], Otago Daily Times, 12 May 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2023.

Following the war McArley made his first-class debut for Otago in a March 1948 match against the touring Fiji national cricket team played at Carisbrook. Opening the bowling he took two wickets in the match and made scores of 27 and 11 not out. The 27 runs he scored in his first innings in top-level cricket remained his highest score as a batsman. He went on to play in all four of Otago's 1951–52 Plunket Shield fixtures taking only one wicket, before making a single representative appearance against Canterbury in January 1958, taking three wickets, his best return as a bowler in first-class cricket.

McArley worked as a teacher and then as the principal of DNI school. He died at Dunedin in 2019 at the age of 95.