Felix Kelly (cricketer)

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Felix Kelly

| image =

| country =

| fullname = Felix Vincent Kelly

| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|9|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Alma Plains, South Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|1|31|1866|9|26|df=yes}}

| death_place = Wellington, New Zealand

| batting =

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Auckland

| year1 = {{nowrap|1889/90–1897/98}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 8

| runs1 = 31

| bat avg1 = 4.42

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 8

| deliveries1 = 992

| wickets1 = 32

| bowl avg1 = 10.59

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 5/30

| catches/stumpings1= 3/–

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22232/22232.html CricketArchive

| date = 10 November

| year = 2018

}}

Felix Vincent Kelly (26 September 1866 – 31 January 1945) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Auckland between 1889 and 1898.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37547.html |title=Felix Kelly |accessdate=13 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

Felix Kelly was a bowler. He took his best figures of 5 for 30 in his last first-class match, against Hawke's Bay in 1897–98.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Hawke's Bay 1897-98 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4936.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=10 November 2018}} In a senior club match in Auckland in 1896 he took 9 for 29 in an innings and caught the other batsman.{{cite journal |last1="Harrier" |title=Outdoor Sports |journal=Observer |date=25 January 1896 |page=18 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO18960125.2.35}}

Kelly was also one of the best rifle shooters in the Auckland area.{{cite journal |title=Mr. F. V. Kelly |journal=Evening Post |date=12 February 1945 |page=6 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19450212.2.51}} He worked as a civil engineer and surveyor.{{cite journal |title=Mr. F. V. Kelly |journal=Auckland Star |date=12 February 1945 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19450212.2.27}}

He and his wife Hortense (née Runcie) had two sons. He died in Wellington after a short illness.{{cite journal |title=Deaths |journal=Auckland Star |date=1 February 1945 |page=1 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19450201.2.2.5}}