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Full name | Arthur Harry Ashwell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Charing, Kent | 2 August 1908||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 August 1985 Bebington, Cheshire | (aged 77)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1933–1934 | Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:
CricInfo, 3 February 2012 |
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]
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]