Alex Bowell

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Alex Bowell

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Horace Alexander William Bowell

| nickname =

| birth_date = 27 April 1880

| birth_place = Jericho, Oxfordshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|8|28|1880|4|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast

| family = Norman Bowell (son)

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1902–1927

| deliveries =

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 475

| runs1 = 18,509

| bat avg1 = 24.13

| 100s/50s1 = 25/90

| top score1 = 204

| deliveries1 = 2,973

| wickets1 = 34

| bowl avg1 = 51.94

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 4/20

| catches/stumpings1 = 255/2

| date = 4 February

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9172.html Cricinfo

}}

Horace Alexander William Bowell (27 April 1880 – 28 August 1957) was an English cricketer. Bowell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast.

Bowell made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 1902 County Championship against Derbyshire.

He played 475 matches for Hampshire from 1902 until 1927, scoring over 18,000 runs.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6495/6495.html Alex Bowell] from CricketArchive retrieved 3 June 2008