Percy Fender

Percy George Herbert Fender was an English cricketer who playedTests and was captain of Surrey between 1921 and 1931. An allrounder, he was a middleorder batsman who bowled mainly leg spin, and completed the cricketers double seven times. Noted as a belligerent batsman, in 1920 he hit the fastest recorded firstclass century, reaching three figures inminutes which remains a record in 2013. On the basis of his Surrey captaincy, contemporaries judged him the best captain in England.

Fender was the elder son of Percy Robert Fender, the director of a firm of stationers, and Lily, ne Herbert. Born in Balham, Surrey, in 1892, he was encouraged to play cricket by his mothers family who were involved in Brighton club cricket, and from the age of eight he attended cricket matches to watch Sussex when visiting them. First educated at St Georges College, Weybridge, then at St Pauls School, London, Fender did not excel academically, but was proficient in many sports.

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