Alan Durant Imlay (14 February 1885 – 3 July 1959) was an English

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er. A

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and right-handed batsman from

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, Imlay was educated at

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and played cricket there first for the junior team in 1898, and then the senior XI between 1903 and 1904. His prowess led to his inclusion in a national Public Schools XI in 1904, and he proceeded to join

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in 1905. Imlay made his

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debut for Gloucestershire in a University match on 25 May 1905 against

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. He made 17 and 12 with the bat, but 45 extras were conceded in the form of

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. Imlay went up to

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in 1904 and played cricket for the University First XI until 1907, playing three matches in total, taking four catches and scoring 20 runs. He then returned to Gloucestershire and played sporadically until 1911, making a total of six more appearances for the county though never bettering his debut score of 17. He took four catches for the county in total, and performed one

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. He did however make one appearance for the

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, where he took four catches, and also played for Leveson-Gower's invitational team, for whom he made his career-best score of 26 with the bat. He died in Brent Knoll, north of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Imlay, Alan 1885 births 1959 deaths Cricketers from Bristol English cricketers Gloucestershire cricketers Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Clifton College H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers Wicket-keepers 20th-century English sportsmen