Samuel G. A. Ellis (died 26 March 1946) was an English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who played
first-class cricket for
Somerset County Cricket Club
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in 1902, and club cricket for Lodway Cricket Club in
Pill, Somerset.
Life and career
Sam Ellis was the fourth son of Thomas, a
pilot at the ports of Cardiff and Bristol, and Sarah Ellis, and was born in either 1870 or 1871. Ellis's single appearance for Somerset came in the match against
Lancashire at
Old Trafford
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in June 1902, a tight match won by Somerset by just nine runs. Ellis batted at No 7 in the first innings and scored 5; in the second innings he was at No 9 and failed to score.
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English cricketers
Somerset cricketers
1946 deaths
Place of birth missing