[4][5][6] He played cricket for Westminster between 1874 and 1876, scoring 87 runs against Charterhouse School in his first season and taking five-wicket hauls against the same opposition in 1875 and 1876.

[4][6] Fox made his first-class cricket debut for Surrey in June 1876 whilst still at school, playing against Gloucestershire at The Oval.

[4] After the family returned to England, Fox rejoined Crystal Palace and established a reputation as a good club cricketer, scoring almost 6,000 runs, including 14 centuries, between 1885 and 1888.

[3][4][6] His Wisden obituary described him as a batsman with "plenty of hitting power" who was, at times, "a very fast scorer" as well as "a useful bowler―keeping a good length and using his head well―and a splendid field".

[d] Fox married Alice Robinson in 1896, but died from a heart attack in 1901 at the age of 42 at Albury in New South Wales on a visit to Australia.