George Arthur Wilson (2 February 1916 – 24 September 2002) was an English

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er, who played fifteen matches for

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between 1936 and 1939. Born in Whitkirk,

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, Wilson scored 352 runs at 17.60 and, bowling slow left-arm, took one wicket for 138. His highest score of 55 not out came against

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, at North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough in 1938, when he added an unbroken 84 for the sixth wicket with his

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. Wilson played his early cricket with Whitkirk C.C., and subsequently graduated to the Bradford League with Saltaire C.C. and Windhill C.C. He was a businessman in Leeds, before retiring to

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. He died in September 2002 in Oxford, aged 86.

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