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Walter Charles Wheeler (30 December 1841 — 10 October 1907) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of John Wheeler and Emma Wadham, he was born in December 1841 at Newport on the Isle of Wight. He first played first-class cricket in 1873, when he made a single appearance for Middlesex against Surrey at The Oval. The following season, he played for the Players of the South against the Gentlemen of the South. He played first-class cricket for Surrey in 1875, making four appearances; in these, he took 5 wickets. Three years would elapse before Wheeler next appeared in first-class cricket, when he played twice for Hampshire against Kent and Derbyshire; against Kent, he claimed his only career five wicket haul when he took 6 for 133 in Kent's first innings. Two years later in 1880, he made a final first-class appearance for Hampshire against Sussex at Hove. In ten first-class matches, he took 14 wickets at an average with his right-arm roundarm medium pace bowling. As a lower order batsman, he scored 80 runs at a batting average of 4.44. In club cricket, he played for Cheam and won the Surrey Cup with them in 1881. Wheeler died at Kennington in October 1907.

References

1. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Walter Wheeler". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
2. "First-Class Bowling in Each Season by Walter Wheeler". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
3. "Kent v Hampshire, County Match 1878". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
4. ^ "Player profile: Walter Wheeler". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

External links

• Walter Wheeler at ESPNcricinfo

• 1841 births
• 1907 deaths
• Sportspeople from Newport, Isle of Wight
• Cricketers from the Isle of Wight
• English cricketers
• Middlesex cricketers
• Players of the South cricketers
• Surrey cricketers
• Hampshire cricketers