Albert Wensley

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Albert Wensley

| image =

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| fullname = Albert Frederick Wensley

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|5|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Brighton, Sussex, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|6|17|1898|5|24|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ware, Hertfordshire, England

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast

| role = All-rounder

| club1 = Sussex

| year1 = 1922–1936

| club2 = Auckland

| year2 = {{nowrap|1929/30–1930/31}}

| club3 = Nawanagar

| year3 = 1936/37–1939/40

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 400

| runs1 = 10,875

| bat avg1 = 20.48

| 100s/50s1 = 9/42

| top score1 = 154

| deliveries1 = 73,667

| wickets1 = 1,142

| bowl avg1 = 26.48

| fivefor1 = 56

| tenfor1 = 10

| best bowling1 = 9/36

| catches/stumpings1 = 265/1

| date = 19 December

| year = 2023

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22599.html ESPNcricinfo

}}

Albert Frederick Wensley (24 May 1898 – 17 June 1970) was an English first-class cricketer. In 400 first-class matches, mainly for Sussex from 1922 to 1936, he took 1,135 wickets with his medium pace bowling and scored more than 10,000 runs.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22599.html |title=Albert Wensley |access-date=25 June 2016 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}} He spent some years playing and coaching in New Zealand and India.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14864/14864.html Albert Wensley], CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 August 2024. {{subscription}}

He did the double in 1929 and took over 100 wickets on four other occasions. His best bowling, 9 for 36, came in New Zealand against Otago in 1929–30, when he played the first of two seasons for Auckland.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Otago 1929-30 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1920S/1929-30/NZ_LOCAL/PS/AUCK_OTAGO_PS_24-26DEC1929.html|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=19 December 2023}} He scored five centuries, with a best of 140 against Glamorgan in 1928.{{cite web |title=Glamorgan v Sussex 1928 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1920S/1928/ENG_LOCAL/CC/GLAM_SUSSEX_CC_07-10JUL1928.html |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=19 December 2023}} His fastest hundred saw him hit 120 in 110 minutes against Derbyshire in 1930.{{cite web |title=Sussex v Derbyshire 1930 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1930/ENG_LOCAL/CC/SUSSEX_DERBY_CC_18-20JUN1930.html |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=19 December 2023}}