august august english professional cricketer played class cricket somerset career spanned left arm fast medium pace bowler appeared england test matches began career club professional north east england joined somerset professionals forced miss qualified county productive bowler county years class cricket emergence later limited opportunities club joined ground staff lord cricket ground played appearing lord representative sides english winter chosen tour south_africa played matches later designated test matches described arguably class took class wickets career came tests early life career born august newcastle northumberland began cricket career private club precursor county team appeared professional time employed moving somerset somerset professional second class cricket founded initially struggled financially employed club professionals played recorded match county july year facing team sixteen men super mare taking thirteen wickets match regularly somerset leading wicket matches collected wickets innings twice included somerset team face kent bath kent captain objected presence correctly pointing qualified play somerset result removed appear county cricket season served qualification appear county taking wickets innings scoring runs opening batsman class cricket joined ground staff lord class debut bowling unchanged innings claimed wickets runs scored highest score class career runs large victory following month featured somerset generally considered match class cricket lancashire somerset heavily beaten match took wickets scored runs summer selected appear professional players amateur gentlemen prestigious annual fixture lord little impact gentlemen won wickets played fourteen class matches claiming wickets average taking wickets innings twice somerset leading wicket season taking twice wickets effective bowler match representative match playing south north south player score double figures innings lost match played exclusively end july somerset fixtures began having collected wickets innings oxford_university repeated feat twice season somerset taking gloucestershire achieving best class bowling figures hampshire match took wickets second innings giving wickets match occasion achieved feat class cricket played match end season year champion county won game runs innings required bowl bowled players scoring ducks took second innings somerset leading wicket taking class wickets county year bowling average best english season following season appeared somerset match kent early season took match final class appearance county selected play south north bowled overs match taking wicket remainder notable appearances season considered class performed matches wiltshire taking wickets match including seven second innings match class status enjoyed best match south taking wickets innings north defeated wickets majority cricket appear times somerset stripped class status contrast played exclusively county appearing times somerset relied bowling early 1880s spearheaded late 1880s rarely needed bowl overs despite presented bat reward usually given batsmen scored century test cricketer english winter sent touring team south_africa organised major original featured odds matches player team faced opposition sides including players depending perceived strength book history cricket describes quality touring party weak county selected despite having played class match majority wickets tour taken lancashire spinner took heavily bowler claimed wickets average suggests ease touring victories selection comparatively weak tour continued calls strength contest english facing player south african matches arranged considered different matches tour advertised major matches later granted test match status commented intended considered necessary representative english team trip cape test opened bowling bowled economically conceding runs ball overs took wicket innings noted batting later day having bowled south_africa england rallied run partnership tenth wicket batting number scored runs second opening batsman south_africa second innings change bowler took wickets best figures test matches south_africa scored runs bowled england scored runs required victory day match remaining england dominated second test largely bowling batting england scored runs contributed claimed south african wicket end day claimed match took wickets second day help england innings run victory test appearances ones career final class matches took class wickets average highest score runs scored debut later life career returning south_africa played occasionally times somerset little merit final appearance somerset took wickets county total came class matches match years later obituary suggest returned end professional cricket career died august
Arnold Fothergill