David Allen (cricketer)

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David Allen England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	Right arm offbreak
	Tests	First-class
Matches	39	456
Runs scored	918	9,291
Batting average	25.50	18.80
100s/50s	0/5	1/29
Top score	88	121*
Balls bowled	11,297	77,619
Wickets	122	1,209
Bowling average	30.97	23.64
5 wickets in innings	4	56
10 wickets in match	0	8
Best bowling	5/30	8/34
Catches/stumpings	10/0	252/0
Test debut: 6 January 1960 Last Test: 4 June 1966 Source: [1]

David Arthur Allen (born 29 October 1935 in Horfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1953 and 1972. He also played 39 Test matches for England.

Allen was first selected for England in 1959 and in 1960 was selected as the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year. Allen toured all the then-current Test-playing nations. He was a decent bat - and in the 1963 Lord's Test against the West Indies, he notably played out the final two balls of Wes Hall's last over for a draw. He bowled England to their only victory on the 1965-66 Ashes tour.

An off break bowler, using a very short run, Allen came close to developing into an allrounder on the level of Fred Titmus. Playing fairly regularly for England throughout the first half of the 1960s, he found that after 1966 he found it increasingly difficult to score enough runs or get enough bowling at county level as trends changed. Gloucestershire utilised three spin bowlers from the 1950s onwards but by the end of the sixties Mike Bissex and Allen were effectively doing the work of one bowler. Though Bissex lost form, the advent of Sadiq Mohammed, a useful leg spinner, saw Allen fade away from the county side in 1972.
In later years Allen was a member of the Somerset committee.

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NAME	Allen, David Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	29 October 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horfield, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH