#nicholas felix

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Nicholas Felix — Schoolmaster, Artist and Batsman — Retires from First-Class Cricket, 1852

Kent and various sides

1852-08-31

Nicholas Wanostrocht, who played cricket under the pseudonym 'Felix' to preserve his professional reputation as a schoolmaster, retired from first-class cricket in 1852 after a career spanning 1828 to 1852. An elegant left-handed batsman for Kent, a watercolour artist and the author of *Felix on the Bat* (1845), he was one of the most cultivated figures of the golden age of roundarm cricket.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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Alfred Mynn's Single-Wicket Championship — The Lion of Kent Unbeaten, 1840–1847

Alfred Mynn vs various challengers

1846-08-20

Through the early and mid-1840s Alfred Mynn, the Lion of Kent, was the unrivalled champion of single-wicket cricket — the high-stakes individual format in which leading professionals wagered on matches played one batsman against one bowler. Mynn's combination of fast roundarm bowling and heavy hitting made him formidable in the format; he defeated Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and all other challengers, retiring from single-wicket competition around 1847 with his championship record intact.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

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Nicholas Felix — Artist, Author and Batsman: His Playing Peak in the 1840s

Kent and various representative elevens

1845-07-01

Nicholas Felix — whose real name was Nicholas Wanostrocht — was in the 1840s simultaneously the author of Felix on the Bat, the most important batting manual of the period, and an active first-class batsman for Kent and representative sides. As a schoolmaster-amateur who played for the love of the game, he combined technical elegance with the artistic sensibility that made his watercolour sketches of contemporaries the most beautiful cricket portraits of the era.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s