Ken Day (cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1919
Date of Death: 09-Dec-1991
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Ken Day (cricketer)
- Frederick George Kenneth "Ken" Day (25 June 1919 in Yatton, Somerset – 9 December 1991 in Whitchurch, Bristol) played first-class cricket for Somerset in seven matches in 1950 and 1956. An amateur right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper, Day played in a first-class early-season friendly match for Somerset against Glamorgan in 1950, making 29 not out and 4 in the two innings, and making four stumpings.
- But with the reliable and normally fit Harold Stephenson as the regular Somerset wicketkeeper, and the county not running, until 1956, a regular second eleven, Day went back into Bristol club cricket, where he was a wicketkeeper and opening batsman for Knowle Cricket Club. It was in 1956 that Day reappeared in first-class cricket.
- Stephenson was injured early in the season and Day played in six consecutive matches across the month of May.
- His wicketkeeping, said Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, showed "much ability" and he also proved capable with the bat.
- In his first match, he made 43 of the last 58 runs in Somerset's only innings against Leicestershire at Taunton.
- And the following game, he made an unbeaten 56 out of 85 at Old Trafford against a Lancashire attack that included Brian Statham, Roy Tattersall and Malcolm Hilton.At the end of May, Stephenson returned to the Somerset side and Day did not play first-class cricket again.
- "In different circumstances," says one directory of Somerset cricketers, "he could well have established himself at county level.
- As a batsman he took few risks, scoring more than 30 centuries for Knowle CC as a reward for that diligence."
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