Arthur Day (English cricketer)

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 sides 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.

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.

Day played Second XI cricket for Kent County Cricket Club in his final two years at school and made his first-class cricket debut for the county in May 1905 against MCC.

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. He played sporadically until the 1908 season when he put on 248 runs with Punter Humphreys for the seventh wicket against Somerset at the County Ground, Taunton. As of April 2017 this remains a record for the seventh wicket for Kent. In 1909 he scored 1,014 runs in Kent's County Championship winning side, the only other season he scored more than 1,000 runs, and he was rewarded by being named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1910. 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.