Wilfred Payton
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Wilfred Richard Daniel Payton (3 February 1882 - 2 May 1943) was an English First-class cricket
er who played for Nottinghamshire
.
Payton was a right-handed middle order batsman and made 39 hundreds, his first was an innings of 133 against the touring West Indians in 1906. He topped 1000 runs in a season every year from 1921 to 1929 with a best of 1864 runs at 47.79 in 1926. His only first-class wicket was Northamptonshire's Bernard Atkinson.
Payton's son, also named Wilfred
, followed in his footsteps and played with Nottinghamshire in 1935.
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
er who played for Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
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Payton was a right-handed middle order batsman and made 39 hundreds, his first was an innings of 133 against the touring West Indians in 1906. He topped 1000 runs in a season every year from 1921 to 1929 with a best of 1864 runs at 47.79 in 1926. His only first-class wicket was Northamptonshire's Bernard Atkinson.
Payton's son, also named Wilfred
Wilfred Payton (chaplain)
The Venerable Wilfred Ernest Granville Payton CB, MA was an English clergyman and cricketer who played first class cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1935, Cambridge University in 1937 and Derbyshire in 1949....
, followed in his footsteps and played with Nottinghamshire in 1935.