Wilfred Payton

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{For|the Anglican chaplain and cricketer, the son of this man|Wilfred Payton (priest)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Wilfred Payton

| image =

| caption =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 491

| runs1 = 22,132

| bat avg1 = 34.31

| 100s/50s1 = 39/114

| top score1 = 169

| deliveries1 = 78

| wickets1 = 1

| bowl avg1 = 68.00

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 1/18

| catches/stumpings1= 148/0

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31950/31950.html CricketArchive

| date = 5 August

| year = 2020

}}

Wilfred Richard Daniel Payton (3 February 1882 – 2 May 1943) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.

Payton was a right-handed middle order batsman and made 39 hundreds, his first was an innings of 133 against the touring West Indians in 1906.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7136.html| title= Nottinghamshire v West Indians 1906| publisher=CricketArchive}} He topped 1000 runs per season every year from 1921 to 1929 with a best of 1864 runs at 47.79 in 1926.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31950/f_Batting_by_Season.html| title= First-class Batting record by season| publisher=CricketArchive}} His only first-class wicket was Northamptonshire's Bernard Atkinson.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10487.html| title= Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire 1922| publisher=CricketArchive}}

Payton's son, also named Wilfred, followed in his footsteps and played with Nottinghamshire in 1935.