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Alec Skelding
Alexander Skelding (5 September 1886, in Leicester – 18 April 1960, in Westcoates, Leicester) was a first-class cricketer and umpire, who is remembered as one of the great characters in the game.
==The Fast Bowler==
After playing for local clubs, he joined the Leicestershire CCC ground staff as a fast bowler in 1905 but, because he wore spectacles, was not re-engaged at the end of the season. He then joined Kidderminster in the Birmingham League and achieved such success that in 1912 the county re-signed him and he continued with them until he retired in 1929. He made his debut in county cricket in 1912, and played fairly regularly in the two seasons before the first world war. It was in the middle and late 1920s, however, when he was around his 40th year and far past the retirement age of most bowlers of his pace, that he showed remarkable skill as a genuinely fast bowler. In a sometimes bleak era for English fast bowling, he was at times the fastest bowler in the country.
His best season was 1927 – his benefit year – when he took 102 wickets, at an average of 20.81. His most outstanding performance was to dismiss eight Nottinghamshire batsmen for 44 runs on a flat batting track at Grace Road in 1924. He played 177 matches in all, taking 593 wickets at just 24.67. He claimed five wickets in an innings 35 times and ten wickets in a match on ten occasions. He was no batsman, scoring 1117 runs at 6.76 with a top score of 33. He took 48 catches. Ironically for a man who was to become one of the great umpires his dubious powers of sight during his career were always an issue. Asked in his playing days if he found spectacles a handicap, Alec said: 'The specs are for the look of the thing. I can't see without'em and on hot days I can't see with'em, because they get steamed up. So I bowl on hearing only and appeal twice an over.'
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