:Octavius Winslow (cricketer)

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| country = England

| fullname = Octavius Evans Winslow

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|9|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1896|10|13|1850|9|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bermondsey, London, England

| heightft =

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm roundarm medium

| role =

| family =

| club1 = Sussex

| year1 = 1869

| clubnumber1 =

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 5

| runs1 = 207

| bat avg1 = 20.70

| 100s/50s1 = –/1

| top score1 = 56

| deliveries1 = –

| wickets1 = –

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 15 January

| year = 2012

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/23113.html Cricinfo

}}

Octavius Evans Winslow (10 September 1850 – 13 October 1896) was an English cricketer. Winslow was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm medium.

Winslow made his first-class debut for Sussex against Surrey in 1869. He made four further first-class appearances in that season, the last of which came against Surrey.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33991/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Octavius Winslow|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 January 2012}} In his only season of first-class cricket, he scored 207 runs at an average of 20.70, with a high score of 56.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33991/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Octavius Winslow|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 January 2012}} This score was the only fifty he made and came against Kent.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1599.html|title=Kent v Sussex, 1869|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 January 2012}}

Winslow was born at Leamington, Warwickshire, the son of evangelical preacher Octavius Winslow and Hannah Ann Ring. His younger brother, Lyndhurst, also played first-class cricket for Sussex. He died at Bermondsey, London on 13 October 1896.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/227102.html|title=Obituaries in 1897|date=24 November 2005|website=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack}}