Background
He was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire.
He was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire.
Elsby was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. Elsby made a single first-class match for Wales against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1927. In this match, he scored 14 runs in Wales first-innings, before being dismissed by Alec Kennedy, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by the same bowling for 22 runs.
During the course of the match he bowled 11 wicket-less overs.
He died in Ipswich, Suffolk on 20 June 1953.