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Full name Wilton H St Hill
Born July 6, 1893, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Died 1957, Trinidad (aged 63 years days)
Major teams West Indies,Trinidad
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Relations Brother - C St Hill,Brother - EL St Hill
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
3
6
0
117
38
19.50
0
0
0
1
0
First-class
43
74
3
1928
144
27.15
5
7
14
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
3
1
12
9
0
-
-
-
4.50
-
0
0
0
First-class
43
357
209
5
2/14
41.80
3.51
71.4
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 23-26, 1928 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v England at Port of Spain, Feb 1-6, 1930 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1911/12 - 1929/30
Profile
Wilton St Hill was one of the first high-class black batsmen to emerge from the Caribbean. Tall and athletic, he was strong off his legs, and he made his debut for Trinidad in 1912-13 aged 19. By the time West Indies begun to be considered for Test status he was already well past 30, and when in 1925-26 he hammered 105 off the touring MCC, Lord Harris commented that he thought St Hill to be the finest batsman in the West Indies. Much was expected when he toured England with West Indies in 1928 - their first official tour - but he was a huge disappointment, making 54 runs in four innings, and only 262 at 10.91 in the entire summer. In 1929-30 he again impressed against MCC with another hundred, but failed in the resulting Test at his home ground. It was his last first-class innings.
Martin Williamson
Wilton St Hill is believed to have died around 1957, when he would have been 64, but there is no firm evidence of his death - his later years remain mysterious. However, his cricket was immortalised in C. L. R. James's masterwork, Beyond A Boundary, in which he is the subject of a whole chapter. St Hill played in only three Test matches and was a great disappointment when he played in England in 1928. But he was a hero in Trinidad, where both his insouciance and his strokemaking were regarded with awe: he would habitually walk out to bat smoking a cigarette and would throw it away only after the bowler set his field. James wrote that he saw the ball very early and played it very late, even against bowlers as fast as George John:
"He never appeared to be flurried, never caught in two minds ... I do not remember any more frightening sight at cricket than John running, jumping and letting loose at his terrific pace, and St Hill playing back as if he had known he would have to do so long before the ball was bowled and was somewhat bored by the whole business." Learie Constantine, after watching one of St Hill's early innings, said he had perfect timing. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
