Mark Davis (cricketer, born 1971)

Mark Jeffrey Gronow Davis (born 10 October 1971) is a South African former cricketer active from 1990 to 2005. He was club coach of Sussex until he left by mutual agreement in October 2017. During his playing career, he played domestic cricket for Northern Transvaal (later known as Northerns), MCC, and Sussex, as well as making appearances for South Africa A and South Africa U-24s.

Davis appeared in 127 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled off breaks. He scored 2,941 runs with a highest score of 168 and took 232 wickets with a best performance of eight for 37. He was the captain of Northerns cricket team, before moving to England for the 2001 season, as Davis held a British passport. During a match against Nottinghamshire, he almost became the first person in English first-class cricket history to concede a five run penalty under Law 42 of the Laws of cricket (fair and unfair play); his second warning for repeatedly running on the wicket caused the single he scored to be deducted from the score. In 2002, Davis and Robin Martin-Jenkins scored a record eighth-wicket partnership for Sussex of 291; as of 2015, this is still the highest eighth-wicket partnership for Sussex. Davis' innings of 111 in the partnership was his maiden first-class century. He was part of the Sussex team that won the 2003 County Championship, Sussex's first County Championship win, and scored his highest first-class score of 168 in a 2003 match against Middlesex.