He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the years before World War I and toured Australia twice with the England team making six Test match appearances.

[1] In 1897, he joined Kent's newly established Tonbridge nursery at the Angel Ground under Captain William McCanlis.

[1] Fielder made his first-class cricket debut in 1900, playing for Kent against Essex at the County Ground, Leyton.

[6] Fielder broke into the Kent side properly in 1903, replacing fast bowler Bill Bradley in the First XI and showing what Wisden called "capital form".

Woolley had retired hurt earlier in the innings after being hit in the mouth by a ball from Ted Arnold.

[1] He generally bowled out-swing deliveries, swerving the ball away from the batsman and relying on catches by slip fielders.

[7][18] He also used deliveries which made the ball break back into the batsman and is described, again by Wisden in 1907, as bowling at a "fine pace".

A contemporary account described it: "Fielder ... has three distinct paces when running to the wicket, and at each change he bobs his head as if to avoid something hurled at him.