Background
He was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, and died in Nuneaton, also in Warwickshire.
He was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, and died in Nuneaton, also in Warwickshire.
He also played football for Coventry City and Walsall. Wilmot was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast swing bowler. He played in occasional first eleven matches for Warwickshire from 1931, but made little impact until 1935 when he improved his personal best bowling figures twice in the game against Leicestershire, taking five wickets for 91 runs in the second innings.
Foreign most of his career, his batting was negligible, and only the presence in the Warwickshire side of Eric Hollies kept him from occupying the Number 11 batting position.
Wilmot"s cricket career ended with the outbreak of the Second World War.