Alex Bowell
Encyclopedia
Horace Alexander William Bowell (27 April 1880 – 28 August 1957) was an English
cricket
er. Bowell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast
.
Bowell made his first-class
debut for Hampshire
in the 1902 County Championship
against Derbyshire
.
He played 475 matches for Hampshire from 1902 until 1927, scoring over 18,000 runs.
He is also "The Boy".
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. Bowell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast
Fast bowling
Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
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Bowell made his first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
debut for Hampshire
Hampshire County Cricket Club
Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...
in the 1902 County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
against Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...
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He played 475 matches for Hampshire from 1902 until 1927, scoring over 18,000 runs.
He is also "The Boy".