David Roy Davies (12 August 1928 – 14 July 2013) was a
Welsh
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cricket
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er. Davies was a right-handed
batsman. He was born at
Llanelli,
Carmarthenshire. He was educated in his later early years at
Cardiff University
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Davies made a single
first-class appearance for
Glamorgan
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in 1950 against
Somerset. In the match, he scored 7 runs in his only first-class innings.
Davies was an
industrial chemist and fuel technologist who later worked for
Unilever. Davies also played
squash, a sport he represented Wales in.
Family
Davies had an older brother,
Haydn, who played first-class cricket for Glamorgan and the
Marylebone Cricket Club. Both of their parents were killed during the
Second World War, after which Haydn adopted Roy and became his legal father.
Brief profile of Roy Davies
/ref> His nephew Andrew Davies played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and List-A cricket for the Combined Universities
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References
External links
Roy Davies
at Cricinfo
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Roy Davies
at CricketArchive
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1928 births
2013 deaths
Cricketers from Llanelli
Glamorgan cricketers
Welsh chemists
Welsh cricketers