Albert Victor George Wolton (12 June 1919 – 9 September 1990) was an English

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 was a right-hand batsman and right-arm off-spin bowler who played for Warwickshire.

Cricket career

Born in

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, Wolton began his cricket career with his home county, playing seven matches in the 1939

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. After the Second World War Wolton played in the Birmingham League before making his first-class debut in 1947, aged 28."Obituaries", '' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1991, pp. 1284–85. He played 297 first-class matches during his career, scoring 12,930 runs at an average of 31.00. All but one of those appearances came for Warwickshire, the other occurred in 1956 when selected for the North against the South. During eight of his seasons, Wolton exceeded 1,000 runs. His most productive season was in 1955 when he scored 1,809 runs at 34.13, including three centuries. He scored a total of 12 centuries during his career. His highest score was 165 against Worcestershire in 1954. Wolton's off-spin took 37 first-class wickets at 33.16, 22 of these victims came in single season, 1953. His best record of 4/15 was against Middlesex. He took 118 catches and his fielding is described in '' Wisden'' as "outstanding by the standards of any era". Wolton was a regular in the 1951 season when Warwickshire won the County Championship; he contributed 984 runs to their success. In 1959 Wolton's benefit match was the home fixture with Surrey, from which he received more than £3,000. He made his final appearance for the club in 1960, scoring 2 and 0.Derbyshire v Warwickshire, County Championship 1960
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