Wyndham Hill-Smith

Wyndham Hill-Smith

Personal information
Full name	Wyndham Hill-Smith
Born	(1909-02-16)16 February 1909 Angaston, South Australia, Australia
Died	25 October 1990(1990-10-25) (aged 81) Angaston, Australia
Batting style	left-hand batsman
Role	Batsman
Relations	C Hill, LR Hill, A Hill, H Hill, P Hill (uncles)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1931/32–1933/34	Western Australia
First-class debut	19 March 1932 Western Australia v South Africans
Last First-class	26 March 1934 Western Australia v Australian XI
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 9 Runs scored 393 Batting average 28.07 100s/50s 0/4 Top score 68 Balls bowled – Wickets – Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricketArchive, 15 December 2008

Wyndham Hill-Smith OBE (born 16 February 1909, Angaston, South Australia, died 25 October 1990, Angaston) was a cricketer.

The nephew of Australia captain Clem Hill, Hill-Smith was a left-handed batsman. He played eight first-class matches for Western Australia and one for a representative Australian XI.

He made his first-class debut against the touring South Africans at the WACA Ground in 1932. Opening the batting, he made 56 runs before being dismissed by Xen Balaskas.

Following the death of his brother Sidney in the Kyeema aircraft crash in 1938, Hill-Smith returned to South Australia to take on the management of the family winery, Yalumba at Angaston.

A grandstand at Cheltenham Park Racecourse is known as the Wyndham Hill Smith Grandstand.

His Wisden obituary concluded with the comment, "In later life he became famous for the liberal hospitality which he extended to touring teams at his Yalumba vineyard in South Australia."

In 1980, Hill-Smith was made an Officer in the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the wine industry and horse racing.

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