Geoffrey Robert Davies (born 22 July 1946) is a former Australian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er.
He played 73
first-class matches, mostly for
New South Wales, between 1965/66 and 1971/72.
He toured New Zealand with the
Australian team in
1966-67 and
1969-70, and was once 12th man for the
Australian Test team.
[''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 138.]
Davies was a middle-order batsman and leg-spin bowler. When he was chosen to tour New Zealand in 1967 ''
The Canberra Times'' said he was "destined to become a permanent member of the Australian side – if he retains his promise". He played as the professional for
East Lancashire in the
Lancashire League in 1967 and was one of the league's leading players, scoring 695 runs at an average of 48.98 and taking 40 wickets at 15.97. He scored 112 and took 6 for 43 in the second innings in New South Wales' victory over
Queensland in 1967-68. He was considered a contender for the
1968 tour of England, but was not selected.
[Murray F. Tippett, "Contenders for the Australian Team to tour England", '' Playfair Cricket Monthly'', March 1968, pp. 16-17.]
See also
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List of New South Wales representative cricketers
References
External links
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1946 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
New South Wales cricketers
Cricketers from Sydney
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