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Arthur Day (Kent cricketer)

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Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume 2
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where he was in the cricket XI between 1901 and 1904, as captain in his last two years. He also played in the football XI in 1903 and 1904 and represented the school in
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in 1885, the youngest son of Sydney and Evelyn Day. His father was a wine merchant. Day attended Shirley House School in Blackheath and
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A right-handed middle-order batsman who could bowl both fast-medium pace and leg breaks, Day scored 1,149 runs in his first season of
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in 1910. From 1910 to 1914 Day went back to appearing in only around half of Kent's first-class matches and played rarely after the
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as an "enterprising batsman" and could score quickly at times, scoring a century in 55 minutes against
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in 1917 and applied to join an Officer Cadet Unit, later being commissioned as a
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cricket ground, played between South Africa and England on 22 June 1914
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in 1911. As well as playing 143 times for Kent, he appeared in six
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Day married Ada Evans in 1911 and was a bottle agent before
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111.00 runs per innings for the season. He was described by
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In 1921 Day hit his highest score, an unbeaten 184 against
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during the period of the county's greatest success in the
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matches and made four appearances for MCC. His brothers
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Military personnel from the London Borough of Lewisham
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Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Greenwich
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He was killed in action in 408: 470:Wisden Cricketer of the Year 7: 845:Arthur Day (Kent cricketer) 770:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 767:, Deaths in the War, 1944, 689:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 662:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 10: 966: 950:Territorial Force officers 804:Cambridge University Press 167:Domestic team information 613:in January 1969 aged 83. 598:, who played cricket for 362: 358: 227: 222: 211: 203: 199: 189: 179: 174: 171: 166: 145: 129: 121: 99: 74: 64: 59: 39: 930:Artists' Rifles officers 810:. Retrieved 2017-05-29.) 783:Day, David Arthur Sydney 558:after the war. His son, 435:Kent County Cricket Club 387:Kent County Cricket Club 798:Venn J, Venn JA (1954) 789:. Retrieved 2017-05-29. 588:Madras Presidency match 443:Marylebone Cricket Club 545:Armistice with Germany 462:County Ground, Taunton 403:Cricketers of the Year 915:Gentlemen cricketers 847:at Wikimedia Commons 802:, p.209. 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Index

Arthur Day (cricketer, born 1885)

C. B. Fry
Lord's
Blackheath
Kent
Budleigh Salterton
Devon
leg spin
fast-medium
Samuel Day
Sydney Day
David Day
Kent
MCC
Surrey
First-class
Batting average
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Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings
CricInfo
cricketer
Kent County Cricket Club
County Championship
World War I
first-class

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