four occasions and won league and cup doubles with Pembroke in 1944, 1946, 1954 and 1957, the last as captain. He made eight centuries for Pembroke, the first an unbeaten 101 against Merrion at the age of sixteen. A journalist by trade, he was cricket correspondent for The Irish Times and the Evening Herald, and also wrote about Gaelic Games. In those days of 'The Ban', his name used to appear in cricket scorecards as 'B Stanley' to preserve his reputation among the Gaels. He suffered a cricket ban too, in 1960, for accepting an individual award from Caltex, the forerunner of the Texaco awards. Since then only Dermott Monteith (1971 and 1973) and Ed Joyce (2005) have won the award. His two centuries for Ireland came against Scotland in 1959 and 1961, while he also made 69 and 63* against Yorkshire in 1959. The 1961 hundred came in Cork, where he took more than six hours. It took him half an hour to get from 92 to 96 but then began slashing wildly and was dropped twice. He never made a century at Lord's but came close in 1963 (88) and 1965 (78). His last game for Ireland was in September 1965 at Clontarf, close to where he lived. Several of his sons continued the cricketing tradition in Castle Avenue after his untimely death and Brendan represented North Leinster in the 1980s. References CricketEurope Stats Zone profile 1926 births 1969 deaths Irish cricketers Cricketers from Dublin (city)