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| Full name | Clarence Everard Pellew | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1893-09-21)21 September 1893 Port Pirie,South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 May 1981(1981-05-09) (aged 87) Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Nip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Lance Pellew (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 110) | 17 December 1920 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 26 November 1921 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1913/14–1928/29 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clarence Everard"Nip" Pellew (21 September 1893 – 9 May 1981) was an Australiancricketer who played in 10Test matches from 1920 to 1921.
Pellew was also a leadingAustralian rules footballer who, due to permit problems, was only allowed to play one game forNorth Adelaide Football Club in theSouth Australian National Football League (SANFL). He played in the centre againstSturt Football Club's star playerVic Richardson (who also played Test cricket).[1]
He was regarded as an exceptionally brilliant fieldsman,[2] his "running, picking up and throwing in are a positive joy to behold".[3] In 1946Dudley Carew wrote, "across the years the memory of the fair-haired Pellew, of theAustralian Forces team of 1919, stands out in thousands of minds while the centuries and hat-tricks of more famous players have grown dim".[4] HisWisden obituary noted: "Credited with being able to run the 100 yards in 10.2 seconds and to throw a cricket ball over 100 yards, he might well, after sprinting 40 yards round the boundary, save not one run but two or three, so swiftly did he get rid of the ball. In any discussion of the world's greatest outfields, he must be a candidate for a place."[5]
He was South Australia's state coach from 1930 till theSecond World War, and again from 1958 to 1970.[5]
Pellew's brotherLance Pellew also played first-class cricket for South Australia.
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