{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Alan Imlay | fullname = Alan Durant Imlay | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|02|14}} | birth_place = Cotham, Bristol, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|07|03|1885|02|14}} | death_place = Brent Knoll, Somerset, England | batting = Right-handed | role = Wicket-keeper | club1 = Gloucestershire | year1 = {{nowrap|1905–1911}} | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = {{nowrap|1906–1907}} | type1 = FC | debutdate1 = 25 May | debutyear1 = 1905 | debutfor1 = Gloucs | debutagainst1 = Cambridge Univ. | lastdate1 = 19 June | lastyear1 = 1911 | lastfor1 = Gloucs | lastagainst1 = Middlesex | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 12 | runs1 = 166 | bat avg1 = 7.90 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 26 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 16/1 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30529/30529.html CricketArchive | date = 11 June | year = 2025 }}
'''Alan Durant Imlay''' (14 February 1885 – 3 July 1959) was an English cricketer. A wicket keeper and right-handed batsman from Cotham, Bristol,<ref name="cricpro">{{cite web | url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15421.html | title=Player Profile: Alan Imlay | publisher=ESPNcricinfo | accessdate=7 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="capro">{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/30/30529/30529.html | title=Player Profile: Alan Imlay | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=7 May 2014 | archive-date=8 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508062325/http://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/30/30529/30529.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> Imlay was educated at Clifton College<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p210: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> and played cricket there first for the junior team in 1898, and then the senior XI between 1903 and 1904. His prowess led to his inclusion in a national Public Schools XI in 1904, and he proceeded to join Gloucestershire in 1905.<ref name="Teams Alan Imlay played for">{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/30/30529/all_teams.html | title=Teams Alan Imlay played for | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=7 May 2014 | archive-date=8 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508061156/http://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/30/30529/all_teams.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Imlay made his first-class cricket debut for Gloucestershire in a university match on 25 May 1905 against Cambridge University. He made 17 and 12 with the bat, but 45 extras were conceded in the form of byes.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Scorecards/6/6698.html | title=Cambridge University v Gloucestershire University Match 1905 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=7 May 2014 | archive-date=8 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508062443/http://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Scorecards/6/6698.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> Imlay went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1904<ref>{{cite book |last=Venn |first=John |authorlink=John Venn |title=The Book of Matriculations and Degrees |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1915 |page=142 |isbn=9781107511934 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V74sCQAAQBAJ&pg=142 |accessdate=8 December 2016}}</ref> and played cricket for the University First XI until 1907,<ref name="Teams Alan Imlay played for" /> playing three matches in total, taking four catches and scoring 20 runs.<ref name="First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Alan Imlay">{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/30/30529/f_Batting_by_Team.html | title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Alan Imlay | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=7 May 2014 | archive-date=20 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220115026/http://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/30/30529/f_Batting_by_Team.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> He then returned to Gloucestershire and played sporadically until 1911, making a total of six more appearances for the county though never bettering his debut score of 17. He took four catches for the county in total, and performed one stumping.<ref name="Teams Alan Imlay played for" /> He did however make one appearance for the Gentlemen, where he took four catches, and also played for Leveson-Gower's invitational team, for whom he made his career-best score of 26 with the bat.<ref name="Teams Alan Imlay played for" /> He died in Brent Knoll, north of Burnham on Sea in Somerset.<ref name="cricpro" />
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