George Alfred Wilson

George Alfred Wilson
Personal information
Full name	George Alfred Wilson
Born	5 April 1877; Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Died	3 March 1962 (aged 84); Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Relations	Cliff Wilson (son)
Domestic team information
1898–1906	Worcestershire
1907–1908	Buckinghamshire
1912–1914	Staffordshire
Career statistics
Matches	160
Runs scored	2,238
Batting average	11.36
100s/50s	–/5
Top score	78
Balls bowled	33,212
Wickets	732
Bowling average	24.06
5 wickets in innings	58
10 wickets in match	18
Best bowling	9/75
Catches/stumpings	57/–
	Source: Cricinfo, 23 March 2019

George Alfred Wilson (5 April 1877 – 3 March 1962) was an English cricketer, a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman who was the first man to take a wicket for Worcestershire County Cricket Club after they attained first-class status for the 1899 season.

Born in

England batsman Jack Brown before Yorkshire had scored a run. He continued in the same vein, finishing with an outstanding debut innings return of 8–70, although he was less successful (2–69) in the second innings and Worcestershire were defeated by 11 runs thanks to 6–19 from John Brown

.

Wilson enjoyed a fine first season in first-class cricket, finishing with 92 wickets

Australians: once for an England XI, when he took only one wicket (that of Victor Trumper), and once for a Midland Counties

side, for whom he was more successful and picked up five wickets in the game.

Albert Bird; while in 1901, he played in a Rest of England side against Yorkshire, a game in which Gilbert Jessop

scored 233 for the Rest of England in about two and a half hours. In these three summers combined, Wilson took five or more wickets in an innings on 30 occasions.

From

Players of the South against Gentlemen of the South in 1903, while the following year

he achieved career-best innings figures of 9–75 against Oxford University.

In 1906 Wilson's season's bowling average, which with the exception of 1904 had remained in the low twenties throughout his career, ballooned to 36.09, and at the end of that season he retired from first-class cricket. He died in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, just over a month short of his 85th birthday.

His son, George Clifford Wilson, played 70 times for Worcestershire between 1924 and 1926.

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