Arthur Harry Ashwell (2 August 1908 – 19 August 1985) was an English

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er who made four

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appearances for

Kent County Cricket Club Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ken ...

in 1933 and 1934. Ashwell was a right-arm fast-medium paced opening bowler.Ashwell, Arthur Harry
Obituaries in 1987, ''

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'', 1988. Retrieved 2018-09-18. He was born at

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.Arthur Ashwell

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. Retrieved 2018-09-18.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939'', p. 17.
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. Retrieved 2020-07-01.) 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

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Arthur Ashwell
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-09-18. and taking 40 Second XI wickets in 1933 to "head the Second XI

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s". He made his

debut for the Kent First XI in the same season against

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in the

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. 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. Ashwell moved to Merseyside and became the professional at Neston Cricket Club, playing in the

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.Timeline 1881–2017
Neston Cricket Club. Retrieved 2018-09-18. He remained in the area and coached young players at the club for "decades". A room in the clubhouse at Parkgate Cricket Ground is named after him.Spacey C (2009) Neston Cricket Club's facilities nearly complete, About My Area, 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2018-09-18. Ashwell died at

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near

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on the

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in August 1985 aged 77.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashwell, Arthur 1908 births 1985 deaths People from Charing English cricketers Kent cricketers Cricketers from Kent 20th-century English sportsmen