Benjamin Birdsall Wilson was an English first-class cricketer, who played 185 games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1914.
10 Facts About Benny Wilson
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Benny Wilson was a right-handed batsman who scored 8,053 first-class runs at 27.20, with a highest score of 208, one of four centuries he made against Sussex.
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Benny Wilson accumulated a total of fourteen centuries along with 35 fifties in his career, complemented by 53 catches in the field.
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Benny Wilson played for the Yorkshire Second XI from 1902 to 1911, and for H Hayley's XI in 1906.
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Benny Wilson played his early cricket in Scarborough before joining Yorkshire, for whom he was a prolific scoring batsman from 1906 to 1914, though he scored slowly at times and was slow in the field.
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Benny Wilson possessed a strong defense and could hit hard without any pretense to style.
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Benny Wilson maintained his place as Yorkshire's opening batsman until the beginning of World War I in 1914, but left the county when hostilities ceased in 1919.
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Benny Wilson became a coach and was with Pudsey Britannia Cricket Club until taking a position at Harrow School in 1921.
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Benny Wilson was at Harrow for eleven years and later coached at St Peter's School in York.
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Benny Wilson taught Laker how to spin the ball and Laker developed this ability into a skill while he served in the Army during World War II.