Anthony Mark Wilkinson (born 15 August 1981) is a New Zealand former

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He played one first-class and one

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match for

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at the beginning of the 21st century. Wilkinson was born at

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in 1981. McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 139. Cardiff:

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.
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. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played age-group cricket for Otago from the 1997–98 season onwards and plated twice for Dunedin Metropolitan in the

Hawke Cup The Hawke Cup is a non-first-class cricket competition for New Zealand's district associations. Apart from 1910–11, 1912–13 and 2000–01 the competition has always been on a challenge basis. To win the Hawke Cup, the challengers must beat t ...

during the 1999–2000 season. A left-arm medium pace bowler, Wilkinson made his senior debut for Otago in a List A match against

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in January 2002. He scored 14 runs on debut but did not take a wicket from 10 overs. The following season he played his only first-class match, again failing to take a wicket against Central Districts.Anthony Wilkinson
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'', 6 October 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

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* 1981 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1980s-stub