Arthur Fielder England (Eng)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right arm fast (RF)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	6	287
Runs scored	78	2,320
Batting average	11.14	11.31
100s/50s	0/0	1/2
Top score	20	112 not out
Balls bowled	1,491	52,086
Wickets	26	1,277
Bowling average	27.34	21.02
5 wickets in innings	1	97
10 wickets in match	0	28
Best bowling	6/82	10/90
Catches/stumpings	4/0	119/0
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'Arthur Fielder should not be confused with Arthur Fiedler, Boston conductor

Arthur Fielder (born July 19, 1877, Plaxtol, Tonbridge, Kent, England; died August 30, 1949, Lambeth, London, England) was the leading fast bowler in English cricket for the decade before World War I and one of the key contributors to Kent's four County Championship successes between 1906 and 1913. Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specialized in popular music. ... See Conductor for other possible uses of the word. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 31,600 in 2001. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London (see Wiktionary:London for the name in other languages) is the capital of the United Kingdom and England. ... Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. ... Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties 5 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) 3 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) World War I, also known as the First World... The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

In some ways the founder of modern fast bowling, Fielder was the first fast bowler to rely on swing rather than the traditional break-back. He took a fairly long run for his time and could make the ball move away from leg stump to off with great effect. On the very fast pitches that prevailed in his time in dry weather Fielder could be a very dangerous bowler, especially with Kent's array of slip fieldsmen. This swerve, and an occasional break-back that bowled many batsmen made Fielder still effective even when his pace declined after 1909. Whilst strictly a tail-end batsman, he put together an undefeated century against Worcestershire at Stourbridge going in at number 11 - in doing so hitting up 235 for the tenth wicket with Frank Woolley, still the highest last-wicket partnership in county cricket. Fielder also took part in a tenth-wicket stand with Sydney Barnes that gave England the first victory by one wicket in the history of Test cricket. Worcestershire CCC logo Worcestershire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at New Road, Worcester, England. ... Map sources for Stourbridge at grid reference SO8883 Stourbridge is a town in the West Midlands, England. ... Frank Edward Woolley (27 May 1887 - 18 October 1978) was an English cricketer, one of the finest all-rounders the game has seen. ... Sydney Francis Barnes was one of the finest bowlers in cricket history. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ...

Fielder first played in first-class cricket in 1900, but was known only in local cricket until the decline of Bill Bradley caused Kent to search for another fast bowler. Though the summer was mostly exceedingly wet and it was often impossible for fast bowlers to obtain a foothold, Fielder bowled so well that with Richardson and Lockwood on their last legs, he was surpisingly chosen for that winter's Ashes tour. With several wickets affected by rain in a La Niña summer, Fielder had few opportunities: he was omitted from three Tests and did not bowl in one other. Though 1904 was a fair season, in 1905 Fielder fared so badly (though this was partly due to an incredible number of dropped catches) against Nottinghamshire on a Gravesend wicket that was a fast bowler's paradise that he was dropped from many games and only took 55 first-class wickets. First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ... Tom Richardson (born August 11, 1870, Byfleet, Surrey; died July 2, 1912, Chambéry, France) was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time and certainly the most prolific in terms of wicket-taking feats, largely owing to his amazing stamina and appetite for work, which allowed him to... William Lockwood (William Henry Lockwood; born March 25, 1868, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire; died April 26, 1932, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire) was a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-working Tom Richardson for Surrey in the early County Championship. ... The Ashes is a regular international cricket contest between England and Australia, played every two years, so named after the trophy, which is a small wooden urn, said to contain the burnt bails from an 1882 game between the countries at The Oval. ... El Niño is also the nickname of Sergio García. ...

In the remarkably dry Home Counties summer of 1906, though, Fielder not only returned to form but surpassed everything he did before by far. Not only did he take 158 wickets in county matches on consistently hard pitches, but on an over-watered wicket - which was common then whenever very dry weather occurred in England - at Lord's he took all ten wickets for the Players against the Gentlemen. This made Fielder a certainty for Cricketer of the Year status and established himself in the elite of county bowlers. The bowling of Fielder and Colin Blythe allowed Kent to win eleven successive games to clinch the Championship. 1907 was a very wet summer that was all against fast bowlers, yet Fielder, taking advantage of any moisture on top or underneath whenever he could obtain a foothold, had so many deadly days against the weaker counties that, although against Worcestershire and Essex exceptional batting made him ineffective on helpful pitches, he took 172 wickets for only 16 runs apiece. Although he surprisingly did not play at Lord's or the Oval against South Africa, this made him a certainty for the Ashes tour that winter, and he did very well when the difficulties England faced due to the absence of leading players due to business are taken into account. For the whole series, he took 25 wickets at 25.08. Though he did not produce any startling performances, Fielder was for the moment the leading fast bowler in the world. The phrase Home Counties is a name for the group of English counties which border London. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ... Colin Blythe (born May 30, 1879 in Deptford; died in World W ar I on the Forest Hall to Pimmern military railway line, Belgium on November 8, 1917) was a Kent and England left arm spinner who is regarded as one of the finest bowlers of the period between 1900...

The three season 1908, 1909 and 1910 were plagued by injuries which prevented Fielder from taking part in many games, yet he showed many times that when fit he was still the best professional fast bowler in England. This was seen when he took 13 for 164 on a good wicket against Yorkshire in 1909, and when he took 12 for 76 at Northampton a year later. Injury prevented Fielder playing against Australia in 1909 - he would certainly have been picked for the Oval Test were he fit - and this meant Fielder was never to play in a home Test in his career. Since the early Nineteenth century, cricket has gradually developed from an amateur recreational sport in England into a fully professional international sport from which leading players can earn a large income. ... The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ...

The exceptionally dry summer of 1911, though he was fitter than in any season since 1907, showed Fielder rarely at his best: only in two or three matches was he the Fielder of 1906 or 1907, and this caused Kent to surprisingly lose the Championship and place him out of contention for the winter tour of Australia. 1912 was an absolute disaster: Fielder was so ineffective that he was dropped in mid-July and did not play again: though in the later part of 1912 fast bowling was utterly worthless because wickets were so wet a firm footing never existed and Kent did not miss him an iota. Nonetheless, when the first hard pitches came in 1913, it was a shock to see how Fielder rebounded: if not as fast as in 1906 or 1907, his swerve away from the bat made him still a very difficult bowler and this helped Kent have their best season ever in the County Championship.

After a disappointing 1914 - though he did take 7 for 34 against Warwickhsire, World War I ended Fielder's career - though in 1919 and 1920 Kent were so short of pace bowling that they considered recalling him at the age of forty-three. Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties 5 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) 3 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) World War I, also known as the First World...

External links

• First-class bowling statistics
• Fielder takes all ten wickets, but Gentlemen win