Full name Gwyn Hughes Name Gwyn Hughes Batting style Right-handed Role Cricket Player | ||
Bowling style Left-arm orthodox spin | ||
Gwyn Hughes (born 26 March 1941) is a former Welsh cricketer. Hughes was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Cardiff, Glamorgan, and attended Cardiff High School.
Hughes made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against the touring Pakistanis in 1962. He made sixteen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Yorkshire in the 1964 County Championship. In seventeen first-class matches for Glamorgan, Hughes scored 228 runs at an average of 12.66, with a highest score of 92 against the touring Australians in 1964. With the ball, he took 12 wickets at a bowling average of 46.66, with best figures of 3/20.
While studying at Queen's College, Cambridge, Hughes played for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1965 and gained his cricket blue, the varsity match being his final first-class appearance. In ten matches for Cambridge he scored 229 runs at an average of 12.05, with a high score of 48, and took 19 wickets at an average of 42.52, with career best figures of 4/31. A good rugby player, he represented the university.
In later life Hughes taught economics at St Paul's School, London.