Our father, Bernard Hedges, who has died of cancer aged 86, was an opening batsman for Glamorgan in the postwar era, playing for 18 seasons from 1950 to 1967 and racking up 422 appearances for the county.
He scored 17,773 runs at an average of 25.22 during that period, putting him seventh in Glamorgan's all-time list of run scorers. He was the first Glamorgan player to score a century in limited-overs cricket, against Somerset in 1963 in the old Gillette Cup, and his first-wicket stand of 181 with Gilbert Parkhouse against Middlesex in 1958 remains a record for the club against that county.
In all, he scored 21 centuries in first-class cricket, with a County Championship best of 141 against Kent at Swansea in 1961, as well as 144 against the 1962 Pakistan tourists. He was only the second Glamorgan batsman (after Parkhouse) to score 2,000 runs in a season, which he achieved in 1961, and he passed 1,000 runs in every season from 1956 to 1963. In 1967, his final year, he made a career-best 182 against Oxford University.
Born in Pontypridd, Bernard attended the town's grammar school, excelling in many sports. In rugby he played full-back for Pontypridd while still at school (earning a Wales trial) and he later turned out for Swansea.
During his military service, he represented the Great Britain Air Training Corps at football and captained Wales ATC in rugby against England ATC in 1946. After county cricket, he continued to play the game at club level for Ynysygerwn.
He retired to the Mumbles after a second career with Barclaycard that took him around Wales and the southern half of England.
Despite his success in the fledgling limited-overs game, Bernard was a traditionalist and remained a fan of the longer forms of cricket. He was a proud, gentle man from an age when people played for the love of the game. Hugh Morris, Glamorgan's chief executive, said he would be remembered as one of Glamorgan's most outstanding batsmen and a most popular figure in the team during the 1950s and 60s.
He is survived by his wife, Jean, by us, and by his grandsons, Tom, Ellis and Lewis.