Harvey Winson Fellows (11 April 1826 in

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, Hertfordshire – 13 January 1907 in Rickmansworth) was an English amateur

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er. He was the brother of Walter Fellows.

Career

Fellows was a right-handed

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and a

roundarm In cricket, roundarm bowling is a bowling style that was introduced in the first quarter of the 19th century and largely superseded underarm bowling by the 1830s. Using a roundarm action, the bowlers extend their arm about 90 degrees from their ...

right arm

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. Having made his name as a schoolboy cricketer at

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, where he bowled in tandem with

Walter Marcon Walter Marcon (28 March 1824 – 14 November 1875) was an English cleric, noted as a cricketer who played six first-class matches for Oxford University in 1843 and 1844. He had previously established a reputation for extremely fast bowling at E ...

in 1841 and 1842, Fellows was mainly associated with

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(MCC). He played for several predominantly amateur teams, including

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, and represented the Gentlemen in the

Gentlemen v Players Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ...

series. Fellows was noted for his fearsome pace, especially on rough pitches. He is said to have reached his peak early and, after he changed his action by raising the height of his arm during delivery, he lost much of his speed and accuracy. Fellows made 67 known appearances in first-class matches from 1847 to 1869.CricketArchive
Retrieved on 3 November 2008. His known career bowling record includes a total of 169 wickets at an average of 7.66 with a best performance of 8 wickets in one innings. He is credited with

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on 7 occasions.

References

External links

CricketArchive record

Sources

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fellows, Harvey 1826 births 1907 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 English cricketers of 1864 to 1889 Gentlemen cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People from Rickmansworth I Zingari cricketers Gentlemen of the South cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Non-international England cricketers