Walter Wilde

Walter Stanley Wilde (27 February 1908 – 21 August 1968) played first-class cricket for Somerset in seven County Championship matches in the 1929 season.[1] He was born in Long Ashton, Somerset and died at Clevedon, Somerset.

Walter Wilde
Personal information
Full nameWalter Stanley Wilde
Born(1908-02-27)27 February 1908
Long Ashton, Somerset, England
Died21 August 1968(1968-08-21) (aged 60)
Clevedon, Somerset, England
RoleWicketkeeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1929Somerset
First-class debut11 May 1929 Somerset v Worcestershire
Last First-class27 June 1929 Somerset v Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 7
Runs scored 45
Batting average 5.62
100s/50s –/–
Top score 21
Balls bowled –
Wickets –
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 9/1
Source: CricketArchive, 6 June 2010

Wilde was a tail-end batsman and a wicketkeeper who was drafted into the Somerset side for early matches in May and June 1929 because of the illness of the regular wicketkeeper Wally Luckes. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack noted that Somerset used seven different wicketkeepers during the 1929 season, including Wilde and Luckes.[2]

Wilde's only batting success and the only time he reached double figures in first-class cricket came in the match against Derbyshire at Burton-on-Trent when he made 21 of a last-wicket partnership of 47 with Michael Bennett which still did not manage to prevent Somerset from being forced to follow on.[3] In this game he took three catches off the bowling of Arthur Wellard in Derbyshire's only innings, the best return of his short career. When the amateur Michael Spurway became available to keep wicket in mid-season, Wilde, as a professional, was dropped and did not play first-class cricket again.

References
  1. "Walter Wilde". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  2. "Somerset Matches". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1930 ed.). Wisden. p. 412.
  3. "Scorecard: Derbyshire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1 June 1929. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
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