Wilfrid Timms

{{short description|English cricketer and schoolteacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Wilfrid Timms | image = File:W W Timms.jpg | country = England | fullname = Wilfrid Walter Timms | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|9|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = Northampton, Northamptonshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|9|30|1902|9|28|df=yes}} | death_place = Godalming, Surrey, England | heightft = | heightinch = | role = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | club1 = Northamptonshire | year1 = 1921–1932 | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = 1922–1925 | columns = 1 | column1 = FC | matches1 = 106 | runs1 = 4083 | bat avg1 = 22.55 | 100s/50s1 = 4/22 | top score1 = 154* | deliveries1 = 179 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 25/0 | date = 27 August 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/21852.html Cricinfo }} '''Wilfrid Walter Timms''' (28 September 1902 – 30 September 1986) was an English cricketer and schoolteacher who played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire and Cambridge University from 1921 to 1932.

Timms made his first-class debut while still a schoolboy at Northampton School for Boys. In his second match, when Northamptonshire followed on 381 in arrears, he scored 154 not out in five and three-quarter hours to save the match.<ref name=WCA/>

From 1930 he taught as a schoolmaster at Charterhouse School in Godalming, running the cricket at the school from 1932 to 1946.<ref name=WCA>''Wisden'' 1987, pp. 1248–49.</ref>

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==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=21852}} * [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33331/33331.html Wilfrid Timms] at CricketArchive

{{DEFAULTSORT:Timms, Wilfrid}} Category:1902 births Category:1986 deaths Category:People educated at Northampton School for Boys Category:English cricketers Category:Cambridge University cricketers Category:Northamptonshire cricketers Category:Cricketers from Northampton Category:20th-century English sportsmen