Clarence Everard "Nip" Pellew (21 September 1893 – 9 May 1981) was an Australian

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 who played in 10 Test matches from 1920 to 1921. Pellew was also a leading Australian rules footballer who, due to permit problems, was only allowed to play one game for

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in the

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(SANFL). He played in the centre against Sturt Football Club's star player

Vic Richardson Victor York Richardson (7 September 189430 October 1969) was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia Australian rules football team, representing Australia in baseba ...

(who also played Test cricket). He was regarded as an exceptionally brilliant fieldsman, his "running, picking up and throwing in are a positive joy to behold". In 1946 Dudley Carew wrote, "across the years the memory of the fair-haired Pellew, of the Australian Forces team of 1919, stands out in thousands of minds while the centuries and hat-tricks of more famous players have grown dim".Carew, p. 163. His ''

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'' obituary noted: "Credited with being able to run the 100 yards in 10.2 seconds and to throw a cricket ball over 100 yards, he might well, after sprinting 40 yards round the boundary, save not one run but two or three, so swiftly did he get rid of the ball. In any discussion of the world's greatest outfields, he must be a candidate for a place."''

'' 1982, p. 1208. He was South Australia's state coach from 1930 till the

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, and again from 1958 to 1970. Pellew's brother

Lance Pellew Lancelot Vivian Pellew CMG (15 December 1899 – 8 December 1970) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for South Australia from 1920 to 1923. He was later a prominent lawyer and judge in Adelaide. Early life and sporting career Pelle ...

also played first-class cricket for South Australia. CE_Pellew

References

Sources

* Carew, D. (1946) ''To the Wicket'', Chapman & Hall, London. * Atkinson, G. (1982) ''Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking'', The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. .

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