Daniel Wilkie (1 December 1843 – 11 May 1917) was an Australian
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 three
first-class cricket matches for
Victoria between 1865 and 1873.
Wilkie attended Scotch College in his youth and learnt cricket and he represented his University cricket team before playing for East Melbourne. He scored the club's first century in 1861. He began his career as a slow roundarm bowler but became a highly successful underarm bowler and respected batsman. In his career he was a solicitor in Melbourne.
See also
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List of Victoria first-class cricketers
References
1843 births
1917 deaths
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Cricketers from Melbourne
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