Full name Arthur Percival Day 1907–1912 MCC Batting style Right-handed | 1905–1925 Kent First-class debut 22 May 1905 Kent v MCC | |
Born 10 April 1885 ( 1885-04-10 ) Blackheath, Kent Bowling style Right arm leg spin
Right arm fast-medium Last First-class 18 July 1925 Kent v Surrey Died 22 January 1969, Budleigh Salterton, United Kingdom | ||
Arthur Percival Day (10 April 1885 – 22 January 1969) was an amateur cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the period of the county's greatest success in the County Championship. He scored over 7,000 first-class runs and was chosen as one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1910.
Cricketing career
Day attended Shirley House School in Blackheath and Malvern School where he was captain of the school cricket team in his last two years. He joined Kent County Cricket Club in 1905 and made his first-class debut for the county in May 1905 against MCC.
A right-handed middle-order batsman and a bowler who could bowl both fast-medium and leg breaks, Day scored 1,149 runs in his first season of first-class cricket, playing in 19 matches. He played sporadically until the 1908 season when he put on 248 runs with Punter Humphreys for the seventh wicket against Somerset at the County Ground, Taunton. As of April 2016 this remains a record for the seventh wicket for Kent. In 1909 he scored 1,014 runs in Kent's County Championship winning side, the only other season he scored more than 1,000 runs, and he was rewarded by being named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1910. From 1910 to 1914 Day went back to appearing in only around half the county matches and played rarely after the First World War. He played his last first-class cricket in the 1925 season.
In 1921 Day hit his highest score, an unbeaten 184 against Sussex at Tonbridge, and averaged 111.00 runs per innings for the season. He was described by Wisden as an "enterprising batsman" and could score quickly at times, scoring a century in 55 minutes against Hampshire in 1911. His brothers Sammy and Sydney also played for Malvern and Kent.