About Eric Davies
Eric Quail Davies, was a South African cricketer, who played in five Test matches from 1936 to 1939. He was born in King William's Town and died in Port Alfred, both in Cape Province. Davies was a right-arm fast bowler and left-handed tail-end batsman with a 16-match first-class cricket career extending from 1929 to 1946. The Australians won the game easily by an innings inside two days, but Davies scored a personal success by taking six Australian wickets for 80 runs.
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