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| Full name: | Walter Raleigh Gilbert |
| Born: | 16th September 1853, Strand, London, England |
| Died: | 26th July 1924, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Batting: | Right-hand batsman |
| Bowling: | round arm Right-arm slow |
| Occasional wicket-keeper | |
| Biography: | Emigrated to Canada in 1886 to avoid a scandal involving charges of theft from his teammates' dressing room |
| Relations: | Cousin: EM Grace; Cousin: GF Grace; Cousin: WG Grace; Cousin: WJ Pocock; Cousin: WG Rees; Cousin: WL Rees; Cousin: H Grace; Cousin: A Grace; Uncle: HM Grace |
| Teams: | Middlesex (Main FC: 1873-1874); Gloucestershire (Main FC: 1876-1886); All teams |
| Lists of matches and more detailed statistics | |
| Articles: | Brief profile of W.R.Gilbert |
| First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (1871-1886) | ||||||||||
| M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | Ct | St | |
| WG Grace's XI | 3 | 5 | 0 | 117 | 73 | 23.40 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Middlesex | 9 | 16 | 1 | 261 | 49 | 17.40 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| United South of England Eleven | 6 | 11 | 1 | 182 | 57 | 18.20 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Gentlemen of the South | 6 | 11 | 0 | 185 | 48 | 16.81 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Gentlemen | 4 | 7 | 0 | 43 | 16 | 6.14 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| South | 21 | 36 | 0 | 627 | 55 | 17.41 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Kent and Gloucestershire | 1 | 2 | 1 | 143 | 143 | 143.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| England XI | 9 | 15 | 1 | 429 | 205* | 30.64 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Gloucestershire | 108 | 180 | 15 | 3141 | 102 | 19.03 | 1 | 12 | 100 | 3 |
| Gloucestershire and Yorkshire | 1 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 47 | 24.50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| England | 2 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 13 | 8.66 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Gentlemen of England | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 20.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| United Eleven | 2 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 38 | 16.66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Under 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| The Rest | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Overall | 175 | 296 | 20 | 5290 | 205* | 19.16 | 3 | 15 | 160 | 6 |
| First-Class Career Bowling (1873-1886) | ||||||||||
| Balls | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | BB | Ave | 5wI | 10wM | SRate | Econ | |
| WG Grace's XI | 196 | 16 | 103 | 5 | 5-52 | 20.60 | 1 | 0 | 39.20 | 3.15 |
| Gentlemen of the South | 564 | 60 | 212 | 12 | 6-63 | 17.66 | 1 | 0 | 47.00 | 2.25 |
| Gentlemen | 720 | 59 | 316 | 16 | 6-93 | 19.75 | 1 | 0 | 45.00 | 2.63 |
| Middlesex | 144 | 10 | 66 | 2 | 2-47 | 33.00 | 0 | 0 | 72.00 | 2.75 |
| South | 1607 | 150 | 701 | 43 | 6-83 | 16.30 | 3 | 0 | 37.37 | 2.61 |
| United South of England Eleven | 435 | 35 | 191 | 21 | 7-28 | 9.09 | 2 | 1 | 20.71 | 2.63 |
| Kent and Gloucestershire | 173 | 11 | 103 | 5 | 3-63 | 20.60 | 0 | 0 | 34.60 | 3.57 |
| Gloucestershire | 7388 | 709 | 3264 | 174 | 6-30 | 18.75 | 7 | 0 | 42.45 | 2.65 |
| England XI | 336 | 23 | 174 | 14 | 4-22 | 12.42 | 0 | 0 | 24.00 | 3.10 |
| Gloucestershire and Yorkshire | 28 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0-7 | 4.71 | ||||
| England | 52 | 3 | 22 | 0 | 0-22 | 2.53 | ||||
| United Eleven | 216 | 25 | 100 | 3 | 3-94 | 33.33 | 0 | 0 | 72.00 | 2.77 |
| Under 30 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0-17 | 12.75 | ||||
| Overall | 11867 | 1102 | 5291 | 295 | 7-28 | 17.93 | 15 | 1 | 40.22 | 2.67 |
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