15th January. Born on this day 1946 in Cardiff. Roger Davis - county cricketer who played for Glamorgan for 13 years as an all-rounder, scoring over 7,000 runs and taking 241 wickets in first class cricket. He became headline news in 1971, when a ball hit him on the side of the head while he was fielding in the dangerous short leg position, causing his heart and breathing to stop In 1968, he came close to preventing the record-breaking 36 runs in one over, scored by Gary Sobers in a match at Swansea, when he caught the ball for Sobers fifth six, but fell over the boundary rope.
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