Malcolm Hilton

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Malcolm Hilton
Personal information
Full name
Malcolm Jameson Hilton
Born(1928-08-02)2 August 1928
Chadderton, Lancashire, England
Died8 July 1990(1990-07-08) (aged 61)
Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side
Test debut12 August 1950 v West Indies
Last Test6 February 1952 v India
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 4 270
Runs scored 37 3,416
Batting average 7.40 12.11
100s/50s 0/0 1/6
Top score 15 100*
Balls bowled 1,244 55,360
Wickets 14 1,006
Bowling average 34.07 19.42
5 wickets in innings 1 51
10 wickets in match 0 8
Best bowling 5/61 8/19
Catches/stumpings 1/– 202/–
Source: CricInfo, 6 November 2022

Malcolm Jameson Hilton (2 August 1928 – 8 July 1990)

England
.

Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, stated, "he was the best slow left-arm bowler Lancashire had seen this century and, at 22, was in the Test side, seemingly set for life. Hilton, however, suffered the spinners' nightmare, the jitters, and lost his way at times". Bateman added, "He also, say colleagues, enjoyed cricket's social life a little too much although his 1,006 first-class wickets still cost only 19 apiece".[1]

Early career

Hilton was born in

Minor Counties Championship in 1949 and, in 1950, he gained a permanent place in the First Eleven taking 125 wickets for less than 17 runs apiece. He was called up for the final Test match against the West Indies
but was not successful.

England

In 1951, he bowled with great steadiness against the

South Africans,[3] taking 3 for 176 in the first innings on a featherbed pitch at Headingley during the fourth Test Match. He toured India the following winter, but was criticised in Wisden as lacking the ability to exploit the Indian type of pitch. Despite this, at Kanpur in the Fourth Test he took nine wickets in the match, and led England to victory, alongside his off-spinning Lancastrian colleague Roy Tattersall
.

Career in the mid-1950s

However, in 1952, Lancashire began a period of indecision. Hilton often alternated with Bob Berry, a policy that adversely affected both players.[4] In 1953, Hilton played irregularly but returned in the wet summer of 1954 to take 96 wickets. In 1955, although occasionally left out, he took 104 wickets and scored his only century in even time against Northamptonshire.

1956 was Hilton's best season. He took 147 wickets and was chosen as one of

New Zealanders. His younger brother Jim played a few times for Lancashire, and more often for Somerset. At Weston-super-Mare
in 1956, Malcolm Hilton took 14 Somerset wickets and Jim Hilton responded with eight Lancashire victims.

Later years

In the dry summer of 1959, after a poor start by Hilton, Greenhough was preferred as a matter of policy.[5] and Hilton returned to League cricket and the Second Eleven. In 1960, he was jointly awarded a benefit with Tattersall, neither playing in the benefit match.[6] His last appearance was in 1961 at Edgbaston against Warwickshire during a brief recall. He scored 22 and 2, but was heavily punished by Ray Hitchcock during the first innings when he bowled four overs for 26 runs.

Having appeared as a stand-in professional for Church in 1961, Hilton played for Burnley in 1962 and 1963 in the Lancashire League.[7] He later captained Church.

Hilton died in Oldham, Greater Manchester in July 1990, at the age of 61.

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-869833-21-X
    .
  2. ^ Brightly Fades The Don – Jack Fingleton(1949)
  3. ^ Wisden 1952
  4. ^ John Kay in Lancs summary Playfair CA 1953 & 1954
  5. ^ Cricketer Winter Annual 1959
  6. Daily Telegraph
    . 9 December 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  7. ^ League Reports by G Brooking (The Cricketer 1962)
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