Alexander John Wilkes (4 November 1900 – 12 July 1937) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er who played 11 matches for

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

, three in 1925 and eight in 1927. He was not a success, with a top score of only 25 in 22 innings, and Worcestershire lost every game in which he appeared. Wilkes was born in

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it had ...

, and died in the same town at the early age of 36.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilkes, Alexander 1900 births 1937 deaths English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Sportspeople from Kidderminster