David Wilde (cricketer)
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David Wilde is a former English
England
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 cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
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 for Derbyshire
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 in 1971 and 1972.

Wilde was born in Glossop
Glossop
Glossop is a market town within the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the Glossop Brook, a tributary of the River Etherow, about east of the city of Manchester, west of the city of Sheffield. Glossop is situated near Derbyshire's county borders with Cheshire, Greater...

. He started playing for Derbyshire in 1969 for the junior sides and for the second XI, and became a regular bowler for the second eleven in 1970. In the 1971 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1971
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1971 was the centenary cricket season of the English club Derbyshire which had first played in 1871. In the County Championship, they won one match to finish seventeenth in their seventy-seventh season in the Championship. They won seven matches in the John...

 Wilde made his first class debut against Somerset
Somerset County Cricket Club
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 in May when he took three wickets. He played three more first class games in the season but most of his games were for the second XI.

In the 1972 season, Wilde played proportionately more games for the first team and recorded his best bowling figures of 3-27 against Essex
Essex County Cricket Club
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.

Wilde played limited-overs cricket with one match in 1969 and 1970 and extensive appearances throughout 1972, but left the professional game in the same year.

Wilde was a left-arm medium-fast bowler and took 23 first class wickets at an average of 37.39 and a best performance of 3 for 27. He took ten wickets in one-day cricket with an average of 31.10 and a best performance of 3 for 31. He was a left-handed batsman and played 15 innings in 13 first class matches at an average of 3.10 and a top score of 12. He played 3 innings in ten one-day matches and made one run.
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