Walter Stanley Wilde played first-class

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...

 cricket

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 for Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in seven County Championship

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 matches in the 1929 season. He was born in Long Ashton

Long Ashton

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, Somerset

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 and died at Clevedon

Clevedon

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, Somerset.

Wilde was a tail-end batsman and a wicketkeeper who was drafted into the Somerset side for early matches in May and June 1929 because of the illness of the regular wicketkeeper Wally Luckes

Wally Luckes

Walter Thomas "Wally" Luckes, born in Lambeth, London on 1 January 1901 and died at Bridgwater, Somerset on 27 October 1982, was a cricketer who played for Somerset....

. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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 noted that Somerset used seven different wicketkeepers during the 1929 season, including Wilde and Luckes. Wilde's only batting success and the only time he reached double figures in first-class cricket came in the match against Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 at Burton-on-Trent when he made 21 of a last-wicket partnership of 47 with Michael Bennett

Michael Bennett (cricketer)

Geoffrey Michael Bennett played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1928 and 1939.Bennett was born at Bruton, Somerset...

 which still did not manage to prevent Somerset from being forced to follow on. In this game he took three catches off the bowling of Arthur Wellard in Derbyshire's only innings, the best return of his short career. When the amateur Michael Spurway

Michael Spurway

Michael Vyvyan Spurway was a British civil servant in the Colonial Service and later a businessman. He also played county cricket for Somerset, and served as a pilot in the RAF in the Second World War.-Early life:...

became available to keep wicket in mid-season, Wilde, as a professional, was dropped and did not play first-class cricket again.