Roy Davies (cricketer)
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Full name | David Roy Davies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales | 12 August 1928||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died |
14 July 2013 84) West Clandon, England | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Haydn Davies (brother), Andrew Davies (nephew) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1950 | Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 3 July 2010 |
David Roy Davies (12 August 1928 - 14 July 2013) was a former Welsh cricketer. Davies was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. He was educated in his later early years at Cardiff University.
Davies made a single first-class appearance for Glamorgan in 1950 against Somerset.[1] In the match he scored 7 runs in his only first-class innings.[2]
Davies was an industrial chemist and fuel technologist who later worked for Unilever. Davies also played squash, a sport he represented Wales in.
Family
Davies' had an older brother, Haydn, who played first-class cricket for Glamorgan and the Marylebone Cricket Club. Both their parents were killed during the Second World War, after which Haydn adopted Roy and became his legal father.[3] His nephew Andrew Davies played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and List-A cricket for the Combined Universities.