Emrys Davies
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David Emrys Davies was a Glamorgan
cricket
er and in his later years a Test cricket umpire.
Davies was born in Llanelli
, Carmarthenshire
, Wales
. His first class career for Glamorgan
lasted for thirty one years, from 1924 till 1954. He was a left-handed top order batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
Two years after retirement he umpired his first Test match, going on to umpire nine in total. Davies died in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...
cricket
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 and in his later years a Test cricket umpire.
Davies was born in Llanelli
Llanelli
Llanelli , the largest town in both the county of Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed , Wales, sits on the Loughor estuary on the West Wales coast, approximately west-north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarthen. The town is famous for its proud rugby...
, Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and one of thirteen historic counties. It is the 3rd largest in Wales. Its three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford...
, Wales
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...
. His first class career for Glamorgan
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...
lasted for thirty one years, from 1924 till 1954. He was a left-handed top order batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
Two years after retirement he umpired his first Test match, going on to umpire nine in total. Davies died in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Records
At the end of his 621 game career he had scored 26564 runs and 903 wickets as he put himself into the record books at Glamorgan.- Twice took 100 wickets in a season, 1935 and 1937
- His 885 wickets for Glamorgan puts him 7th on their all time list as of 2007
- Holds the Glamorgan 3rd wicket record stand with Willie Jones of 313
- His tally of 26102 runs has been bettered only by Alan Jones
- In 1937 he scored 1954 runs which is the club's 7th highest total for a season
- He is one of only six cricketers from his county to have scored more than 30 centuries (31)
- His highest score of 287* was a club record until broken by Steve James in 2000, some 61 years later
- With 612 games to his name for Glamorgan, he is second only to Don Shepherd for the most capped player for the county