Bert Wensley (24 May 1898 – 17 June 1970) was an English

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er. In 400 first-class matches, mainly for Sussex from 1922 to 1936, he took 1,135 wickets with his medium

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and scored more than 10,000 runs. He did the double in 1929 and took over 100 wickets on four other occasions. His best bowling, 9 for 36, came in

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against Otago in 1929–30, when he played the first of two seasons for

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. He scored five centuries, with a best of 140 against Glamorgan. His fastest hundred saw him hit 120 in 110 minutes against Derbyshire in 1930.

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Albert Wensley at CricketArchive
1898 births 1970 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers Auckland cricketers Europeans cricketers Saurashtra cricketers Players cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 {{England-cricket-bio-1890s-stub

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