Albert Howell (cricketer)

Albert Louis Howell (26 July 1898 – 26 July 1958) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire between 1919 and 1922.[1] He was born in Ladywood, Birmingham and died at Wingrove, Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the younger brother of the England Test player Harry Howell.

Like this brother, Albert Howell was a right-arm bowler, though he was described as fast-medium rather than fast. He made a few first-class appearances for Warwickshire in 1919 and 1920, but was a fairly regular member of the team in 1921, his best season, when he took 31 wickets at the, for the time, rather high average of 32.61 runs per wicket.[1] The season included his only five-wicket haul, figures of five wickets for 65 runs in the second innings of the match against Middlesex at Lord's.[2] He was not successful in 1922 and did not play for the county after that season.

Howell moved to North-East England and between 1926 and 1936 he played in Minor Counties cricket for Durham, at that stage not a first-class county team.[1] At this level of cricket, he was highly effective and in 1929 he was picked for the Minor Counties representative team that met Lancashire in a first-class fixture: the match was ruined by rain and Howell failed to take a wicket, but it was his last first-class cricket appearance.[3]

He died on his 60th birthday.