Arthur Day (Kent cricketer)
Arthur Percival Day (10 April 1885 – 22 January 1969) was an English amateur cricketer who played mainly for Kent during its pre-war peak. A right-handed batsman who could bowl leg spin and fast-medium, he played 157 first-class matches between 1905 and 1925, mostly for Kent, and also appeared for MCC.
In his career he scored 7,174 runs at 32.90, including 13 centuries, with a top score of 184 not out. He also took 132 wickets at 26.36, with best bowling of 8/49, and took 92 catches.
Day was born at Blackheath, Kent, the youngest son of Sydney Day. He went to Malvern College, where he captained the cricket XI. He made his first-class debut for Kent in 1905 and had a breakout year with 1,149 runs. He scored over 1,000 runs again in 1909 and was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1910. He was known for enterprising batting and could score quickly, including a 55-minute century in 1911. In 1908 he shared a Kent seventh-wicket partnership of 248 with Punter Humphreys, a Kent record.
Day helped Kent win four County Championships before World War I and also played in six Gentlemen v Players matches and four for MCC. He married Ada Evans in 1911 and worked as a bottle agent before the war. He volunteered for military service in 1916, served with the Artists Rifles, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He spent the war on the home front, was demobilised in 1919, and resigned his commission in 1920. After cricket he worked as a stockbroker and lived in Blackheath.
His son David played for Kent’s Second XI and served in Burma, where he was killed in 1944; he had also played one first-class match for the Europeans in India in 1940. Arthur Day died in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, in 1969, aged 83.
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