Gwynn Evans

Who is Gwynn Evans?

Gwynn Evans was a Welsh cricketer. Evans was a right-handed batting who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Bala, Merionethshire.

Evans first appeared in county cricket for Denbighshire in the 1933 Minor Counties Championship against Lincolnshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Denbighshire from 1933 to 1935, making a total of ten Minor Counties Championship appearances for the Welsh county.

Later, while studying for his degree at Brasenose College, Oxford, Evans made his first-class appearance for Oxford University against Gloucestershire in 1938. He played first-class cricket for the university in 1938 and 1939, making sixteen appearances. In his sixteen matches, he scored 468 runs at an average of 19.50, with a high score of 63 not out. This score came against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1939. An all rounder, he took 51 wickets with the ball, which came at a bowling average of 28.68, with best figures of 6/80. These figures, one of two five wicket hauls he took for the university, came against Leicestershire in 1939.

On the back of his performances for Oxford University in which he gained his Blue, Evans was offered a trial for the latter half of the 1939 season by Glamorgan, making his debut against the touring West Indians at Cardiff Arms Park. Following this match there was talk of him becoming a long-term replacement for Jack Mercer, but with the start of World War II and the subsequent cancellation of county cricket, this was not to be. In his brief time with Glamorgan, Evans scored 164 runs at an average of 12.61, with a high score of 36. With the ball, he took 5 wickets, although these came at a fairly expensive average of 66.20. Following the war he opted not to continue his cricket career, but instead to focus on a career in teaching.