Arthur Fielder (19 July 1877 – 30 August 1949) was an English professional cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the years before World War I and toured Australia twice with the England team making six Test match appearances. He was chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907. Early life Fielder was born at Plaxtol near Tonbridge in Kent in 1877. He grew up the son of a farm bailiff and worked on a hop farm in his early years. In 1897 he joined Kent's newly established Tonbridge nursery at the Angel Ground under Captain William McCanlis. This was a successful player development programme which allowed young professional cricketers to be trained and developed the nucleus of the Kent sides of the early 20th century. Fielder also spent a year on the ground staff at the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1904. Cricket career Fielder made his first-class cricket debut in 1900, playing for Kent against Essex at the County Ground, Leyton. He went wicketless and was out without scoring in the match. He went on to play 249 first-class matches, taking 1,277 wickets at an average of 21.02 and featured in four County Championship winning sides for his County. Fielder broke into the Kent side properly in 1903, replacing fast bowler Bill Bradley in the First XI and showing what Wisden called "capital form". After such a successful season Fielder was selected for the England cricket team for the tour of Australia in 1903–04. Fielder did not enjoy a particularly successful tour, although he played in two of the Test matches, making his Test debut on New Years Day 1904 in the second test at the MCG. After a poor 1905 season Fielder was the leading wicket taker for the Kent side which won the 1906 County Championship, appearing in all 22 Championship matches and taking 158 wickets for the County in the process. He was named one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907, alongside his County colleague Kenneth Hutchings. During the season he became the first man to take all 10 wickets in an innings in the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's, taking 10/90 in the first innings and 14 wickets overall in the match.