| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Sydney Wheatley Falding |
| Birth Date: | 5 May 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Kirkstall, Yorkshire, England |
| Death Place: | Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Left-arm fast-medium |
| Club1: | West of England |
| Year1: | 1927 |
| Club2: | Devon |
| Year2: | 1925–1932 |
| Club3: | Northamptonshire |
| Year3: | 1921 |
| Club4: | Lincolnshire |
| Year4: | 1914 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 2 |
| Runs1: | 8 |
| Bat Avg1: | 2.66 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 8 |
| Deliveries1: | 240 |
| Wickets1: | 3 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 56.00 |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | 2/49 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 20 March |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12993.html Cricinfo |
Sydney Wheatley Falding (5 May 1891 – 7 November 1959) was an English cricketer. Falding was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Kirkstall, Yorkshire.
Falding made his debut in county cricket for Lincolnshire in the 1914 Minor Counties Championship, in which played two matches against Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.[1] Following the First World War, Falding made a single first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against the touring Australians. The Australians scored a mammoth 621 in their first-innings, with Falding taking only the wicket of Warwick Armstrong for the cost of 119 runs.[2] He reappeared in county cricket in 1925, playing for Devon in the Minor Counties Championship. From 1925 to 1932, he played 80 matches for Devon.[1] He scored 3,137 runs for Devon at a batting average of 25.29, including several centuries and high score of 162 against Berkshire in 1926.[3] With the ball he took 176 wickets at a bowling average of 18.49.[3] In 1927, he played his final first-class match for the West of England against the touring New Zealanders at the County Ground, Exeter.[4] He took two wickets in the match, those of New Zealand captain Tom Lowry and Ces Dacre.[5]
He died in Leeds, Yorkshire on 7 November 1959.