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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.
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