Arthur Day

Arthur Percival Day (10 April 1885 – 22 January 1969) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the period of the county's greatest success in the County Championship before World War I. He played in all four of Kent's Championship winning teams in the pre-war period and scored over 7,000 first-class runs. He was chosen as one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1910.

Early life Day was born at Blackheath in 1885, the youngest son of Sydney and Evelyn Day. His father was a wine merchant. Day attended Shirley House School in Blackheath and Malvern College where he was in the cricket XI between 1901 and 1904, as captain in his last two years. He also played in the football XI in 1903 and 1904 and represented the school in rackets pairs.

A right-handed middle-order batsman who could bowl both fast-medium pace and leg breaks, Day scored 1,149 runs in his first season of first-class cricket, playing in 19 matches. From 1910 to 1914 Day went back to appearing in only around half of Kent's first-class matches and played rarely after the First World War. He played his last first-class cricket in the 1925 season. He was killed in action in Burma in February 1944 whilst serving as a captain in the Wiltshire Regiment. He played one first-class cricket match for the Europeans in the 1940 Madras Presidency match in India. One of Day's sisters, Daisy, married Charles Toppin, a teacher at Malvern College, who played cricket for Cambridge University.

Day died at Budleigh Salterton in Devon in January 1969 aged 83.