Walker Ellis (27 January 1895 – 25 November 1974) was an English

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 active from 1920 to 1923 who played for

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. He was born in Summerseat,

and died in

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. He appeared in 36

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as a righthanded

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, scoring 846 runs with a highest score of 138 * and held 13 catches.Walker Ellis at CricketArchive
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1895 births 1974 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1890s-stub