Jack Davies (cricketer, born 1911)
Broad Clyst, Devon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 5 November 1992 Cambridge | (aged 81)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm off spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1931–1934 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1934–1951 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 20 July 2009 |
Jack Gale Wilmot Davies OBE (10 September 1911 – 5 November 1992) was an English psychologist and sportsman who played first-class cricket and top-level rugby union. He served in the War Office during World War II and was a noted academic psychologist. He served as the President of MCC in 1985–1986 and was the tenth person elected an Honorary Life Vice-President of the club.
Early life and education
Davies was born in
Sporting career
Davies made his first-class cricket debut for Cambridge University in 1931 in a match against Yorkshire at Fenner's.[2] He played 38 first-class matches for the University side, including against touring sides from New Zealand, West Indies and Australia. It was against Australia in 1934 that he achieved his most notable feat when he bowled Don Bradman for a duck, the first time Bradman had made nought in England.[1][3]
Davies, who bowled off-spin, went on to play 99 times for
After retiring from county cricket he played for MCC in the annual first-class match against Cambridge University from 1953 to 1961, captaining the side on the last seven occasions and playing his final first-class match aged 49.[1][2] He had played in a match for an England side against the Dominions in 1945[4] and was mentioned in a list of potential England batsmen and captains in the 1945 edition of Wisden.[2][5] He also made one appearance in the Gentlemen v Players fixture in 1946.[2] He played club cricket for Blackheath after the Second World War[6] and was a member of the wandering Buccaneers Cricket Club.[7]
Away from cricket, Davies played rugby union for Blackheath F.C. and for Kent in the winter months. He captained Blackheath in 1938–39 and in 1945–46.[8] Davies won the Rugby fives national singles title three times between 1936 and 1939, having finished as runner-up in 1935.[1][9] He was a runner-up in the Cyriax Cup, the Rugby Fives pairs competition, in 1939.[10]
War service and later life
In 1939 Davies took a second degree in psychology from the
Davies was elected Treasurer of Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1958 and was a member of the MCC Committee, becoming Treasurer from 1976 to 1980 and President in 1985–1986.[1] He was later elected one of MCC's Honorary Life Vice-Presidents in 1988, only the tenth person to be honoured in this way. He was elected in the same year as Bradman.[11]
He was an executive director of the
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Davies, Jack Gale Wilmont OBE, Obituaries in 1992, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1993. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ a b c d e f Jack Davies, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ Views and values, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1945. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ A brief history, Blackheath Cricket Club. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ About the Buccaneers Cricket Club, Buccaneers Cricket Club. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ Blackheath Rugby, Blackheath F.C., 2001. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ Tournament winners 1925 to 2017, The Rugby Fives Association. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ Cyriax cup, The Rugby Fives Association. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ MCC honours Sir Donald Bradman, in Notes from the Editor, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1989. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- ^ Honorary Fellows Archived 23 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, British Psychological Society. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
- CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-05-22.