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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Alfred Daulton Wilkins
| nickname =
| birth_date = 1856
| birth_place = [[Kotri]], [[Bombay Presidency]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = 21 October 1920 (aged 63/64)
| death_place = [[Bedford]], [[Bedfordshire]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| family =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1892/93–1898/99
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 15
| bat avg1 = 3.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 13
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| date = 19 November
| year = 2022
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/alfred-wilkins-35973 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Alfred Daulton Wilkins''' (1856 — 21 October 1920) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[Indian Forest Service|Imperial Forest Service]].

The son of Alfred Wilkins senior, he was born in 1856 at [[Kotri]] in [[British India]]. Wilkins was educated in England at [[Christ's College, Finchley]] and later at [[Tonbridge School]], where he played for the cricket eleven and the football thirteen.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=The Register of Tonbridge School from 1826 to 1910 |first=H. E. |last=Steed |date=1911 |publisher=[[Rivington (publishers)|Rivington's]] |location=London |page=142 |url=https://archive.org/details/b29012715 |language=en}}</ref> Following the completion of his education, he returned to India, where he joined the [[Indian Forest Service|Imperial Forest Service]] (IFS) in April 1875 as a mail officer in the [[Bombay Presidency]]. He was appointed an assistant conservator of forests in the Presidency in 1879, later being appointed deputy conservator of forests in [[Sindh]] in 1887. He retired from the IFS in July 1911.<ref>{{cite book |title=The India Office and Burma Office List |date=1920 |publisher=[[Harrison and Sons]] |page=773 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSdEAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> While in British India, Wilkins played [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] on three occasions between 1892 and 1898 in the [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Matches]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14905/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Alfred Wilkins|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 15 runs in his three matches, with a highest score of 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14905/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Alfred Wilkins|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He played in a notable non-first-class match in 1886 at [[Poona Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] for the North of India against the South, scoring 81 [[not out]] and 218 not out.<ref name="BOOK"/> Wilkins retired to England, where he died at [[Bedford]] in October 1920.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=35973}}

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[[Category:1856 births]]
[[Category:1920 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Jamshoro District]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Sindh]]
[[Category:People educated at Christ's College, Finchley]]
[[Category:People educated at Tonbridge School]]
[[Category:Imperial Forestry Service officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British people in British India]]

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