David Clark (cricketer)

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David Clark
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling type Right arm slow
First-class record
Matches 75
Runs scored 1959
Batting average 15.79
100s/50s 0/3
Top score 78
Balls bowled 52
Wickets 1
Bowling average 44.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best Bowling 1/19
Catches/Stumpings 46/-
First class debut: August 6, 1945
Last first class game: July 24, 1954
Source: [1]

David Graham Clark (born January 27, 1919) is a former English cricketer and cricket administrator.

Clark was born in Barming, Kent. He played first-class cricket for five years, appearing for Kent. He was Kent's captain for the last three years of his career. He retired at the end of the 1951 season.

He is likely to be best remembered for chairing the committee set up in 1965 to "examine the future of county cricket in the widest possible terms and if thought fit to recommend alterations in the structure and playing conditions of the County Championship". However the first-class counties rejected most of the recommendations made in the so-called "Clark Report".[1]

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  1. ^ Wisden Cricketer's Almanack, 1967 edition: "Counties reject the Clark plan"

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Preceded by
Bryan Valentine
Kent CCC Captain
1949 - 1951
Succeeded by
William Murray-Wood