| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | - | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | English | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 491 | |||
| Runs scored | 22132 | |||
| Batting average | 34.31 | |||
| 100s/50s | 39/114 | |||
| Top score | 169 | |||
| Balls bowled | 78 | |||
| Wickets | 1 | |||
| Bowling average | 68.00 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | 1-18 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 148/0 | |||
| Source: CricketArchive, | ||||
Wilfred Richard Daniel Payton (3 February 1882 - 2 May 1943) was an English First-class cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire.
Payton was a right-handed middle order batsman and made 39 hundreds, his first was an innings of 133 against the touring West Indians in 1906.[1] He topped 1000 runs in a season every year from 1921 to 1929 with a best of 1864 runs at 47.79 in 1926.[2] His only first-class wicket was Northamptonshire's Bernard Atkinson.[3]
Payton's son, also named Wilfred, followed in his footsteps and played with Nottinghamshire in 1935.