Rockley Wilson
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm slow | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 1 | 136 |
| Runs scored | 10 | 3565 |
| Batting average | 5.00 | 22.00 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | 4/15 |
| Top score | 5 | 142 |
| Balls bowled | 123 | 23852 |
| Wickets | 3 | 467 |
| Bowling average | 12.00 | 17.63 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 26 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | 5 |
| Best bowling | 2/28 | 7/16 |
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 106/- |
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Test debut: 25 February 1921 |
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Evelyn Rockley Wilson (born March 25, 1879 in Bolsterstone, Yorkshire, died July 21, 1957 in Winchester, Hampshire), was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire and England.
An amateur whose main profession was as a schoolmaster for 40 years at Winchester College, Rockley Wilson bowled slow right-arm spinners that could go either way and batted well enough to score a century on first-class debut and another one in the annual Varsity match. He played a little for Yorkshire from 1899, but after leaving Cambridge in 1902, he then played no first-class cricket for the next 10 years, preferring, or so he claimed, to play three club matches a week rather than two county games.
But after an approach in 1913 by Hampshire, where he lived, was turned down, he was persuaded to rejoin Yorkshire, the county of his birth, and stayed with them until 1923, playing mostly in August school holidays. In 1920, at the age of 41, he bowled so successfully that he finished fourth in the national averages and was given leave from Winchester to tour Australia with the 1920-21 MCC team led by Johnny Douglas.
In a disastrous series in which the Australian cricket team won all five Tests, Wilson made his Test debut at the age of 41 years and 337 days, the second oldest debutant in English cricket (after James Southerton in the very first Test match of them all in 1877). He scored five in each innings and took three wickets cheaply, but MCC still lost the match. Wilson also ran into trouble on the tour for filing reports back to the Daily Express newspaper.
Known as a witty, self-deprecating man, Wilson is credited as a big influence on several generations of public school cricketers at Winchester.
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