Lives in Cricket No 5 - Rockley Wilson

Wilson regularly corresponded in the latter part of his life. 58 In a letter of 3 June 1957, Jardine observed that had England’s batsmen followed Rockley Wilson’s precept against the West Indies in the First Test, “that would have solved 80% of their difficulties.” We can be sure that Douglas Jardine himself followed Wilson’s advice to the hilt for one thing that he never lacked was physical courage. Wilson clearly saw other sides of Jardine’s character, however. When news of Jardine’s appointment as captain of the MCC team to tour Australia in 1932/33 was announced, Rockley’s prescient Winchester 53 Batting technique being refined. Rockley Wilson coaching in the nets at Winchester School. 58 Earlier he had been a poor correspondent. His brother Clem once remarked that the only way of being sure of a reply was to send Rockley a pre-paid telegram, and added that Rockley had the best collection of unused reply forms in the country.