# Alan Day

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English cricketer

**Alan Richard Day** (12 November 1938 – 2022) was an English [cricketer](/source/Cricket). He was a right-handed batsman.[1]

Day was born in [Muswell Hill](/source/Muswell_Hill) in [North London](/source/North_London), and attended [Aldenham School](/source/Aldenham_School) in [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire).[2][1] He made his [Minor Counties Championship](/source/Minor_Counties_Championship) debut in 1957 for [Middlesex Second XI](/source/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club), playing two matches. He didn't play another match in the competition until 1962, when he joined [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire_County_Cricket_Club). He played regularly for Hertfordshire until 1975, and then for [Berkshire](/source/Berkshire_County_Cricket_Club) from 1977 to 1980.[3] He made his one-day debut in the 1966 [Gillette Cup](/source/Friends_Provident_Trophy) for Hertfordshire against Berkshire, and played five [List A matches](/source/List_A_cricket) in total between 1966 and 1974.[4] He top-scored with 53 when Hertfordshire beat [Devon](/source/Devon_County_Cricket_Club) in the first round of the Gillette Cup in 1969.[5]

Day's only [first-class](/source/First-class_cricket) appearance came for [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) in 1968, against [Ireland](/source/Ireland_national_cricket_team). He scored 5 runs in the match, which finished in a draw.[6] In all, he played 129 matches for MCC between 1961 and 1988.[7] In club cricket for [Hornsey](/source/Hornsey) Cricket Club and other cricket matches he scored more than 100 [centuries](/source/Century_(cricket)).[8]

Day died in 2022, aged 83.[7]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CI_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CI_1-1) ["Alan Day"](https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/alan-day-12099). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)* 1958, p. 756.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Alan Day"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28999/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html). *CricketArchive*. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["List A Matches played by Alan Day"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28999/List_A_Matches.html). *CricketArchive*. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Devon v Hertfordshire 1969"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1969/ENG_LOCAL/GLTE/DEVON_HERTS_GLTE_10-12MAY1969.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Ireland v MCC 1968"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1968/ENG_LOCAL/OTHERS/IRELAND_MCC_07-09SEP1968.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-MCC_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-MCC_7-1) [*Annual Report & Accounts*](https://issuu.com/jonathan.north/docs/annual_report_digital_single_upload), Marylebone Cricket Club, 2023, p. 91.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Maurice Alexander, ["100 Hundreds in All Cricket"](http://archive.acscricket.com/journals/100/74/index.html), *The Cricket Statistician*, Winter 1997, pp. 73–74.

## External links

- [Alan Day](https://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12099.html) at [Cricinfo](/source/Cricinfo)

- [Alan Day](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28999/28999.html) at Cricket Archive (subscription required)

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