Kilburn Wilmot (3 April 1911 – 24 April 1996) was an English

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who played

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between 1931 and 1939 for

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. He also played football for

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and

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. He was born in

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, and died in

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, also in Warwickshire. Wilmot was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast swing bowler. He played in occasional first eleven matches for Warwickshire from 1931, but made little impact until 1935 when he improved his personal best bowling figures twice in the game against

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, taking five wickets for 91 runs in the second innings. In 1936, he played in more than half of Warwickshire's matches, and in the game against

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he achieved the best bowling figures of his career, with seven wickets for 34 runs in the first innings and four for 56 in the second, giving match figures of 11 for 90. Wilmot's career did not, however, take off after this success: in 1937, he played in only a few matches and although he was a fairly regular member of the side in both 1938 and 1939, he did not take five wickets in an innings again and his seasonal total of wickets never exceeded the 38 he achieved in both 1936 and 1938. For most of his career, his batting was negligible, and only the presence in the Warwickshire side of

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kept him from occupying the No 11 batting position. In 1939, however, he made a great improvement and averaged 26 with the bat for the season; his two scores of more than 50 both came in this season and with the higher of them, a score of 54, he shared an eighth-wicket partnership with Tom Dollery which remains a Warwickshire record in first-class games against

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. Wilmot's cricket career ended with the outbreak of the Second World War.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilmot, Kilburn 1911 births 1996 deaths English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Coventry City F.C. players Walsall F.C. players Association footballers not categorized by position English footballers