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Chelsea, London born all-rounder Wilfred Hill-Wood was educated at Eton and played for the first XI, appearing in the Eton-Harrow match in 1918, 1919 and 1920. While at Eton Hill-Wood made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1919 season when he took 2 wickets and scored a total of 49 in two innings against Northamptonshire that August. He played two more matches in 1919 and next played one match for Derbyshire in the 1921 season. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, playing for Cambridge University in 1921 and 1922, winning his Blue in 1922.
He took part in a Marylebone Cricket Club (M.C.C.) tour of New Zealand in 1922-23 and was a regular in the Derbyshire side in the 1923 season. He played two matches for Derbyshire in the 1924 season and five for them in 1925 in which years he also played for The Eton Ramblers. In 1932-33 he played during a tour of India, and performed again for Derbyshire in the 1935 and 1936 seasons. His last matches were in 1938 and 1939 for the M.C.C. against the Combined Universities.
Hill-Wood was a right-handed batsman and played 60 innings for Derbyshire in 35 matches. His top score was 107 and his average 25.74. He played 21 innings in 14 matches for Cambridge University with a top score of 81. He was a leg-break bowler and took 49 wickets at an average 31.08 for Derbyshire. He took 14 wickets at an average of 28.85 for Cambridge University. His best overall match count was 5-62. In all first class cricket he played 63 first class matches, scoring 3 centuries and 15 half centuries, with an aggregate of 2,848 runs at 27.65. With his bowling he took 65 wickets at 34.41 apiece, and also held 35 catches in first class play.
His father was a Member of Parliament and had also played cricket for Derbyshire. As well as his father, Hill-Wood’s brothers Basil, Denis and Charles all played cricket for Derbyshire.
NB in the photograph, taken during the 1922 Varsity match at Lord’s, Hill-Wood skies a ball and is caught by Oxford University’s Beverley Lyon.
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