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Australian cricketer

Arthur Fenton
Personal information
Born(1870-02-27)27 February 1870
Tarnagulla, Victoria, Australia
Died20 May 1950(1950-05-20) (aged 80)
Melbourne, Australia
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1895/96Victoria
1903/04–1910/11Hawke's Bay
1911/12–1914/15Wellington
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 14
Runs scored 195
Batting average 8.12
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 39
Balls bowled 2,268
Wickets 50
Bowling average 25.08
5 wickets in innings 2
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 6/41
Catches/stumpings 6/–
Source: Cricinfo, 28 August 2018

Arthur Fenton (27 February 1870 – 20 May 1950) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1896, and after moving to New Zealand in 1903 he played for Hawke's Bay and Wellington.

Cricket career

An off-spin bowler, useful tail-end batsman and brilliant fielder, Fenton played club cricket in Melbourne and Sydney before being engaged as a professional coach by the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association in late 1903. His best bowling performances were 5 for 78 for Hawke's Bay against Auckland in 1904–05 and 6 for 41 and 3 for 91 against Otago in 1908–09. As well as coaching, he was the caretaker at the Napier Recreation Ground.

Fenton left Hawke's Bay in October 1911 to take up a groundsman's position at Athletic Park rugby ground in Wellington. He carried out drainage works that made a great improvement to the condition of the ground in wet weather. Playing for the University club in Wellington senior cricket, he took three hat-tricks during the 1916–17 season, and finished with 44 wickets at an average of 11.22.

Personal life

Fenton married in Melbourne in 1898. The marriage produced one child, but Fenton went to Sydney without them in 1902, intending to qualify as a dentist. His wife Rhoda divorced him in 1911 on the grounds of desertion.

Fenton returned to Australia in 1920. He died in 1950 in Melbourne, where he lived in Power Street, Hawthorn, with his wife Charlotte.

References

  1. "Arthur Fenton". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. "Hawke's Bay Association". Hawke's Bay Herald: 4. 19 October 1903.
  3. "Notes by Long Slip". Otago Witness: 52. 21 October 1903.
  4. "Auckland v Hawke's Bay 1904-05". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. "Hawke's Bay v Otago 1908-09". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Personal". Hastings Standard: 4. 3 October 1911.
  7. Touchline (10 May 1913). "Rugby Football". Free Lance: 19.
  8. Touchline (30 May 1914). "Rugby Football". Free Lance: 19.
  9. Touchline (13 April 1917). "Cricket". Free Lance: 19.
  10. "Fenton v. Fenton". The Herald: 8. 20 November 1911.
  11. "Wellington Cricket". Free Lance: 24. 25 February 1920.
  12. "All Sorts of Sport". Free Lance: 22. 16 June 1920.
  13. "Deaths". The Argus: 10. 22 May 1950.

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