# George Boyes
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{{Short description|South African cricketer}}
{{For|the English cricketer, George Stuart Boyes|Stuart Boyes}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = George Boyes
| fullname = George Wroughton Boyes
| birth_date = 9 September 1910
| birth_place = [Maseru](/source/Maseru), [Basutoland](/source/Basutoland)
| death_date = 19 May 1986 (aged 75)
| death_place = [Pietermaritzburg](/source/Pietermaritzburg), [Natal](/source/Natal_Province), South Africa
| nickname =
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| family = [Harry Boyes](/source/Harry_Boyes_(cricketer)) (brother)
| club1 = [Natal](/source/KwaZulu-Natal_cricket_team)
| year1 = 1939/40
| columns = 1
| column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 9
| bat avg1 = 9.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 6*
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 10 September
| year = 2015
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13032/13032.html CricketArchive
}}
'''George Wroughton Boyes''' (9 September 1910 – 19 May 1986) was a South African [cricket](/source/cricket)er who played a single [first-class](/source/first-class_cricket) match for [Natal](/source/KwaZulu-Natal_cricket_team) during the 1939–40 season. He was a right-handed middle-order [batsman](/source/batsman).
Boyes was the younger brother of [Harry Boyes](/source/Harry_Boyes_(cricketer)), who also played first-class cricket for Natal.[[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13033/13033.html Harry Boyes] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.] The brothers were both born in [Maseru](/source/Maseru) in what is now [Lesotho](/source/Lesotho) (previously part of the British colony of [Basutoland](/source/Basutoland)).[[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13032/13032.html George Boyes] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.] They represent two of only a handful of first-class cricketers to be born in that country.{{Efn|Others include [Alan Barr](/source/Alan_Barr_(cricketer)), [Peter Hobson](/source/Peter_Hobson_(cricketer)), [Reginald Lagden](/source/Reginald_Lagden), [Ronald Lagden](/source/Ronald_Lagden), [Arthur Lewis](/source/Arthur_Lewis_(cricketer%2C_born_1901)), and [Dennis Piers](/source/Dennis_Piers).}} George Boyes played his only match for Natal in December 1939, against [Orange Free State](/source/Free_State_cricket_team) in [Bloemfontein](/source/Bloemfontein).[[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13032/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by George Boyes] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.] He made three runs in the first innings and six [not out](/source/not_out) in the second, and was in the middle when the winning runs were hit. The match was not part of the [Currie Cup](/source/Currie_Cup_(cricket)), which was not being contested during the 1939–40 season.[[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17232.html Orange Free State v Natal], First-Class matches in South Africa 1939/40 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2015.] Boyes died in [Pietermaritzburg](/source/Pietermaritzburg) in 1986, aged 75.