Officer of the Order of the British Empire (military division). Sports Cricket Wynyard played cricket for his schools, notably for the XI at St Edwards's School, Oxford. He would become President of Charterhouse School's Cricket and Football Club from 1913 to 1919. He played while stationed in India, in one match scoring 123 and 106 runs, both not out, in different innings and while on home leave in 1887 he scored 233 for the Incogniti against Phoenix Park in Dublin. Wynyard played in three Test matches for England, one against Australia in 1896 and two against South Africa in 1905–06. He had to decline a place on the Test tour to Australia because of army duties in 1897–98. He was invited to captain England on the Test tour to Australia in 1907–08 but declined for family reasons. He captained M.C.C. in their tour in New Zealand 1906–07 (no Test matches) and made further tours in West Indies 1904–05, topping batting with 562 runs at 40.14; M.C.C. in North America 1907; Egypt 1909; South Africa 1909–10; United States 1920; and Canada in 1923 when, aged sixty-two, he headed the bowling averages with his underarm lobs. He played for Hampshire between 1878 and 1908 (including years they were not first-class in 1886–94) and captained the county in 1896–99. His final first-class match was for M.C.C. against Oxford University in 1912 and in all he scored 8,313 first-class runs, average 33.00, with 13 centuries including 268 runs for Hampshire against Yorkshire in 1896. In 1896 he was the second-highest scoring first-class player in national batting averages with 1,038 runs, average 49.42. In 1899 he was fifteenth placed with a greater 1,281 runs at 41.32. Besides the M.C.C., on whose committee he served in 1920–24, he was member of the Free Foresters, and represented the South African Cricket Association in England in 1908. Football Wynyard was in the school association football XI at Charterhouse in 1876, and at St Edward's School, Oxford, also took up rugby union football, playing in that school's XV. In the latter game he was described as "a glorious three-quarter, fast and strong, and could turn on a sixpence when in full cry. Had he not gone into the army, he would have reached the top in the rugger world." He was more active playing for the old boys' club Old Carthusians, as centre-forward. C.W. Alcock described him as "a