Personal Life and Personality
In 2007, playing for Millfield, Ellison's son, Harry "returned figures of 7–5–7–5, against Sherborne".
Ellison is described by Simon Briggs as, in his pomp: "an unlikely hero, with a white man's Afro ... Hooping the ball around corners."
In 2008, Ellison described himself as follows:
I've become more patient and more tolerant. A life spent in cricket can make you very self-centred, so I think I've moved away from that and become more open. People still say I come across as a grumpy old man, though, with a droopy moustache and a worn-out face. But that's just my exterior. Underneath I'm a much softer person. I haven't got rid of the moustache and long hair from my cricketing days, which gets a mixed reaction. Babies in prams look at me strangely quite a lot, so when I talk to them I have to put my finger over my top lip to soften the blow. They think the hair bear bunch have arrived.
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