Major Davis (27 March 1882 – 27 April 1959) was an English
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 who played one
first-class match, for
Worcestershire against
Oxford University in 1911. He scored 29 and 6, and took one catch, to dismiss Oxford captain
John Evans.
Davis was born in
Lye, then
Worcestershire; he died at the age of 71 in
Blakebrook,
Kidderminster.
His brother
John played four times for Worcestershire in 1922.
Note: it is not known whether "Major" was a name or a title.
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1882 births
1959 deaths
English cricketers
Worcestershire cricketers
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
Cricketers from Worcestershire
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