Bryce Postles

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Bryce Postles | image = | country = | fullname = Bryce John Postles | birth_date = {{birth date|1931|2|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|1|19|1931|2|22|df=yes}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | family = Alf Postles (father) | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Batsman | club1 = Auckland | year1 = {{nowrap|1952/53–1956/57}} | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 19 | runs1 = 770 | bat avg1 = 22.64 | 100s/50s1 = 0/5 | top score1 = 80 | hidedeliveries = true | wickets1 = | bowl avg1 = | fivefor1 = | tenfor1 = | best bowling1 = | catches/stumpings1 = 7/– | date = 28 June | year = 2025 | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/bryce-postles-38206 Cricinfo }}

'''Bryce John Postles''' (22 February 1931 – 19 January 2011) was a New Zealand cricketer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/bryce-postles-obituary?id=40549829|title=Bryce Postles Obituary (2011) |website=The New Zealand Herald}}</ref> He played 19 first-class matches for Auckland between 1952 and 1957.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38206.html |title=Bryce Postles |accessdate=19 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref><ref name="CA">{{Cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22681/22681.html |title=Bryce Postles |accessdate=19 June 2016 |work=Cricket Archive}}</ref> His father played for Auckland in the 1920s and 1930s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alfred Postles |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/alfred-postles-38205 |publisher=Cricinfo |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref>

Born in Auckland, Postles attended Auckland Grammar School.<ref>{{cite book |last=McCarron |first=Tony |year=2010 |title=New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010 |page=107 |location=Cardiff |publisher=The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |isbn=978-1-905138-98-2 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/108/index.html |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> After his debut first-class season in 1952–53, ''The Cricket Almanack of New Zealand'' described him thus: "Very promising right-hand aggressive batsman with full range of strokes."<ref>Arthur H. Carman & Noel S. Macdonald (eds), ''The Cricket Almanack of New Zealand'', Sporting Publications, Wellington, 1953, p. 42.</ref> In the first innings of his second match, on New Year's Day 1953, he scored 80, "a splendid exhibition of powerful stroke play",<ref>''The Cricket Almanack of New Zealand'', 1953, p. 66.</ref> but that remained his highest score, and he played no first-class cricket after the 1956–57 season.<ref>''Wisden'' 2012, p. 215.</ref>

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