David Roy Davies (12 August 1928 – 14 July 2013) was a Welsh cricketer. Davies was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. He was educated in his later early years at Cardiff University.

Davies made a single first-class appearance for Glamorgan in 1950 against Somerset.[1] In the match, he scored 7 runs in his only first-class innings.[2]

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.[3] His nephew Andrew Davies played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and List-A cricket for the Combined Universities.

References

  1. ^ First-Class Matches played by Roy Davies
  2. ^ First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Roy Davies
  3. ^ Brief profile of Roy Davies
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Davies_(cricketer)
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