Henry Wilkinson (cricketer)

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Henry Wilkinson
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Born11 December 1877 (1877-12-11)
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
Died15 April 1967 (1967-04-16) (aged 89)
Simonstown, Cape Province, South Africa

Henry Wilkinson(11 December 1877 – 15 April 1967) was an English first-class cricketer,[1] who played fifty one first-class games from 1903 to 1912. He appeared in forty eight games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1903 to 1905,[1] and for North of England (1904), Woodbrook Club and Ground (1912) and C. B. Fry's XI (1912) in first-class games, and for the Yorkshire Second XI (1903-1906), Yorkshire Colts (1900) and Yorkshire Cricket Council (1903).

Born in Hillhouse, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, Wilkinson was a right-handed batsman, who scored 1,467 runs at 19.05, with a highest score of 113, his only century, against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He took 21 catches in the field. He took three wickets at 40.33, with a best of 2 for 28 against Kent.

Wilkinson died in April 1967, in Simonstown, Cape Province, South Africa.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 381. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
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