lastagainst deliveries death_date lastdate debutyear columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling debutagainst country death_place club batting name fullname debutfor birth_place column debutdate source type lastyear runs date wickets lastfor s/s matches article_title
nottinghamshire balls 164 23 september 1937 31 may 1877 1 28 / - 1877 - 1886 16 september 1853 right - arm round arm fast bowler gloucestershire england stone , dartford , kent , england sussex right-handed batsman robert ellis robert thomas ellis sussex burgess hill , sussex , england first-class 27 august http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/29/29267/29267.html first-class 1886 2356 1853 9 16 yes 0 sussex 2/16 70 robert ellis -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

robert ellis -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

robert thomas ellis -lrb- 16 september 1853 - 23 september 1937 -rrb- was an english maltster and cricketer who played first class cricket for sussex between 1877 and 1889 .
he captained the team in 1880 .
ellis was born at franklands , keymer near burgess hill , sussex , he was educated at brighton college and played in the first xi in 1869 .
he became a maltster .
he made his first class cricket debut for sussex in the 1877 season .
in 1880 he was captain and manager of sussex and scored a century against surrey .
he was staying with his brother philip who was a farmer at rodmell in 1881 .
in 1881 he scored a century against derbyshire .
also in 1881 he played matches for south against north , gentlemen against players and for lord sheffield 's xi .
he played no matches in 1883 and appeared for gentlemen of the south in 1885 .
he played his last three games in the 1886 season .
ellis was a right handed batsman and played 144 innings in 70 first class matches with an average of 18.69 and a top score of 103 .
he was a right arm round arm bowler and took no wickets in 164 balls for the loss of 69 runs .
ellis died at stone , dartford kent at the age of 84 .
