High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Owen Dawkes (19 July 1920 - 10 August 2006) was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1937 and 1939 and for Derbyshire between 1947 and 1961 as a wicket keeper and a lower-order right-handed batsman. During the 1949-50 season he toured India with a team of players making up a Commonwealth XI.