Alan James McLellan is a former English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 between 1978 and 1979.

McLellan was born at Ashton-under-Lyne

Ashton-under-Lyne

Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies on the north bank of the River Tame, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines...

, Lancashire. He made his first-class debut for Derbyshire during the 1978 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1978

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1978 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and seven years. They reached the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup. In the County Championship, they won three matches to finish fourteenth in their seventy fourth...

 against the touring Pakistanis

Pakistani cricket team in England in 1978

The Pakistan cricket team toured England in the 1978 season to play a three-match Test series against England.England won the series 2-0 with 1 match drawn.-Test series summary:* at Edgbaston – England won by an innings and 57 runs...

, taking two catches, before making his first appearance in the 1978 County Championship. McLellan played steadily throughout the County Championships of 1978 and 1979 before finding himself out of the team. His highest career innings of 41 came against Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

 in July 1979.

McLellan was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. McLellan was a tailender batsman along with team-mate Robert Wincer

Robert Wincer

Robert Colin Wincer is a former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1978 and 1980.Wincer was born at Portsmouth and initially played for Leicestershire's Second XI in 1975. Wincer joined Derbyshire in the 1978 season. He played throughout the 1978 season, including in the Benson &...

throughout his short period in first-class cricket.

External links

• Alan McLellan at Cricket Archive