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Test Record:
Batting & Fielding:
Innings: 14 Not Out: 0 Highest Score: 56 Runs: 254
Average: 18.14 100's: 0 50's: 1 Catches: 2
Bowling:
Balls: 858 Runs: 296 Wickets: 14 Average: 21.14
Best: 5 For 46 5 Wicket Hauls: 1
First Class Record:
Batting & Fielding:
Matches: 442 Innings: 696 Not Out: 54 Runs: 12891
Highest Score: 173 Average: 20.07 100's: 9
50's: 56 Catches: 222
Bowling:
Balls: 56875 Runs Conceded: 18887 Wickets: 1188 Average: 15.89
Best Figures: 8 for 22 5 Wicket Hauls: 73 10 Wicket Hauls: 15
Strike Rate: 47.8 Economy Rate: 1.99
Born: Calverton on December 7, 1856
Died: Carlton on November 1, 1926
Position: All-rounder
Starred for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club between the years 1877 & 1896. Played for England in eight Test matches,
including the Australia tours of 1884 and 1886.
Test Debut: England versus Australia Adelaide 1st Test 1884
Last Test: England versus Australia London(Lords) 1st Test 1893
In the 1883 season Wilfred became the first ever Notts player to get a 'cricketers double' i.e. 1000 runs and 100 wickets. He was the last survivor of the Notts XI that played the touring Australians in 1878. In that same year he was in the Marylebone Cricket Club side that was beaten by Australia, a loss that rocked English cricket to its core. In that match Flowers scored 11 of the teams total of 19!! in the second innngs. He had the misfortune to have had the shortest ever benefit match on record. On May 23 1899, the match was finished in three hours and five minutes. The first innings saw Middlesex score 86 all out. Somerset could only muster up 35 and 44 in both innings. Middlesex winning by seven runs. When he retired he became an umpire, but bad eyesight cut that career move short. At the time of his death he was being employed in the lace trade for a hosiery manufacturer.
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