David Blackmore was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Glamorgan

Glamorgan County Cricket Club

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. He was born and died in Swansea

Swansea

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Blackmore, who played on a regular basis for Swansea Cricket Club, made just one first-class appearance, in 1934 against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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, and while he made 34 runs with the bat, this was to prove to be his only innings in Glamorgan colours.

Ten years later, Blackmore would appear for a West of England XI in a friendly match against Glamorgan.

External links

• David Blackmore at Cricket Archive