Arnold Fothergill
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| Batting style | Left-handed batsman | |
| Bowling type | Left-arm medium-fast | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 2 | 40 |
| Runs scored | 33 | 843 |
| Batting average | 16.50 | 14.05 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/1 |
| Top score | 33 | 74 |
| Balls bowled | 321 | 5,423 |
| Wickets | 8 | 119 |
| Bowling average | 4/19 | 18.18 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 6 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 1 |
| Best bowling | 4/19 | 6/43 |
| Catches/stumpings | 0/0 | 15/0 |
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Test debut: 12 March 1889 |
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Arnold James Fothergill (born 26 August 1854 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England; died 1 August 1932 in Sunderland, County Durham, England) was a cricketer who, despite being born in the North-East of England, played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1882 and 1884. Fothergill then played some games for the Marylebone Cricket Club to 1886 and some games for the non-first-class minor county, Northumberland.
Fothergill was a fine left-arm medium-paced bowler, who as a batsman could hit hard down the order. When England sent a cricket tour to South Africa in 1888-89 they decided to send a weak squad as South Africa were not reckoned to be a strong side. The two matches against representative South African sides, which were easily won by England, were later recognised as Test matches, thereby, in retrospect, giving Fothergill two Test caps. These were the last first-class games Fothergill played.
