What is Don Shepherd?
[[File:Don Shepherd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shepherd in May 2007]] '''Donald John Shepherd''' (12 August 1927 &ndash; 18 August 2017) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[cricket]]er. He played for [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]]. One of the great county bowlers, he took more [[first-class cricket|first-class]] wickets, 2,218 at 21.32 each, than any other player who never played [[Test cricket]].<ref>{{Cite book | title = [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]] | edition = 2009 | publisher = [[Wisden]] | chapter = First-class Records, Bowling | page = [https://archive.org/details/wisdencricketers0000unse_y6r8/page/155 155]}}</ref> He was born in [[Port Eynon]], [[Glamorgan]], [[Wales]]. Shepherd played regularly to the end of the 1971 season, and then retired from first-class cricket after a few games in 1972. He often appeared as a summariser on BBC Radio Wales coverage of Glamorgan matches. Shepherd died on 18 August 2017 in Glamorgan, Wales of [[vascular dementia]], aged 90.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40985942 Don Shepherd: Glamorgan great dies aged 90]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shepherd, Don}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:British cricketers]] [[Category:Welsh sportspeople]] {{sports-bio-stub}}