Roger Clive Davis (born 15 January 1946) is a Welsh former county cricketer who played for Glamorgan for 13 years as an all-rounder.
Debut for Glamorgan
Davis first played for Glamorgan in 1964 as an all-rounder in first-class matches. Batting in the middle of the order and bowling off-spin, he was to move up the order later in his career, he took 241 first-class wickets and hit five centuries. and taking one wicket. In 1967, he played his first List-A match for his county. and faced the International Cavaliers on 5 June 1966, scoring 43 before being caught and bowled by Jim Standen.
Gary Sobers and the championship
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 but fell over the boundary rope, giving Sobers another six. During that season, he scored 877 runs off 22 matches at 21.92, with four fifties, Over the winter of 1969/1970 Davis toured the West Indies, however he found playing difficult there during the two first-class matches. He scored 47 runs at 11.75, He was then rushed to hospital, where it transpired that both his heart and his breathing had stopped when he was hit.
He followed his career best 134 in the 1971 season with 114 in 1972, ending the season with 617 first-class runs at 22.85, and two half centuries to go with his hundred.