Charles Leslie (cricketer)
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
| Bowling type | Right arm fast | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 4 | 48 |
| Runs scored | 106 | 1,860 |
| Batting average | 15.14 | 22.96 |
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 4/10 |
| Top score | 54 | 144 |
| Balls bowled | 96 | 332 |
| Wickets | 4 | 8 |
| Bowling average | 11.00 | 20.62 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 |
| Best bowling | 3/31 | 3/31 |
| Catches/stumpings | 0/0 | 18/0 |
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Test debut: 30 December 1882 |
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Charles Frederick Henry Leslie (born 8 December 1861 in Mayfair, Westminster, London, England; died 12 February 1921 in Mayfair, Westminster, London, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for eight years between 1881 and 1888. Leslie played his cricket for Oxford University, Middlesex and England.
Leslie's best cricket came at the start of his career, where he won Blues for Oxford in 1881, 1882 and 1883. His performances won him selection for the Honourable Ivo Bligh's tour side to Australia in 1882/3 where he was part of the team that regained the Ashes. It was on this tour that Leslie played his only Test matches for England.
At Oxford, Leslie also won Blues at racquets and football. Away from cricket he became managing director of William France, Fenwick &. Co. Ltd., Fenchurch Street, London, coal merchants and ship owners.
His great grandson is the former Kent and England cricketer Matthew Fleming.
