David Evans (cricketer, born 1869)

David Evans (cricketer, born 1869)

David Linzee Evans, born at West Town in Somerset on 13 April 1869 and died there on 11 November 1907, played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire from 1889 to 1891 and for Somerset in 1894, 1895 and 1902.

Educated at Loretto College, Evans was a right-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional fast-medium right-arm bowler. His was a curious first-class cricket career: he played 22 matches over 14 years (though he appeared in only six of those seasons) and was used as a specialist batsman. Yet his career average was less than 10.[1] This lack of success is more remarkable as he passed 50 runs in an innings twice in his career, one of them a not-out innings.

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Gloucestershire player

Evans made his first-class debut at Lord's in the Middlesex v Gloucestershire match: he made 1 and 13 and took a single wicket, which would prove to be the only wicket of his first-class career.[2] In his second match, against Sussex, he made an unbeaten 50 in Gloucestershire's follow-on, helping his county to draw the match.[3] In nine other innings for Gloucestershire in the 1889, 1890 and 1891 seasons, however, he reached double figures only once, and then made only 12.

Somerset player

In July 1894, he played six matches for Somerset, batting mostly in the lower order. He made 37 in a rain-ruined match against Lancashire.[4] And then in the next match he joined his captain Sammy Woods with Somerset's score at 48 for six in the second innings against Surrey and together they put on 127 for the seventh wicket, Evans making 60 and Woods 80.[5]

He appeared again in six matches in the 1895 season without similar success and in his final three matches in 1902 he failed in six innings to reach double figures, making only nine runs in all.

Family

His older brother, Ernest Evans, appeared in one first-class cricket match for Somerset in 1891.

External links

David Evans at www.cricketarchive.com.[6]

References

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