Arthur Ashwell (cricketer, born 1908)
Arthur Harry Ashwell (2 August 1908 – 19 August 1985) was an English cricketer who made four first-class cricket appearances for Kent County Cricket Club in 1933 and 1934. Ashwell was a right-arm fast-medium paced opening bowler.[1] He was born at Charing in Kent.[2][3]
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| Full name | Arthur Harry Ashwell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 August 1908 Charing, Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 August 1985 (aged 77) Bebington, Cheshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1933–1934 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 3 February 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ashwell was a young professional on Kent's staff. He first played for the Second XI in 1931, making over 30 appearances for the team in the Minor Counties Championship[4] and taking 40 Second XI wickets in 1933 to "head the Second XI bowling averages".[1] He made his first-class cricket debut for the Kent First XI in the same season against Nottinghamshire in the 1933 County Championship. In a total of four First XI matches for Kent he did not take a wicket and was considered to not be good enough to play regularly for Kent.[1]
Ashwell moved to Merseyside and became the professional at Neston Cricket Club, playing in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition.[4][5] He remained in the area and coached young players at the club for "decades".[5] A room in the clubhouse at Parkgate Cricket Ground is named after him.[6]
Ashwell died at Bebington near Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in August 1985 aged 77.[1][2][4]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Ashwell, Arthur Harry, Obituaries in 1987, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1988. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^ a b Arthur Ashwell, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939, p. 17. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-01.)
- ^ a b c Arthur Ashwell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^ a b Timeline 1881–2017, Neston Cricket Club. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^ Spacey C (2009) Neston Cricket Club's facilities nearly complete, About My Area, 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2018-09-18.