Graeme Wood

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Graeme Wood Australia (Aus)
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	59	83
Runs scored	3374	2219
Batting average	31.83	33.62
100s/50s	9/13	3/11
Top score	172	114*
Balls bowled	-	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	41/-	17/-
As of 12 December 2005 Source: Cricinfo.com

Graeme Malcolm Wood (born November 6, 1956, East Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 59 Tests and 83 ODIs from 1978 to 1989. He scored nine Test centuries in his career and it was a West Australian record until 2001-02 when it was passed by Justin Langer.

His Test debut came against India as a 21-year-old in 1978. He got his place in the side due to several of Australia's best players defecting to World Series Cricket. Later in the year he toured the West Indies and scored a century in the 1st Test as well as four half-centuries as he finished the Test series with the best run aggregate of 474 runs at 47.40.

He maintained his place in the Australian cricket team for the majority of the early to mid 1980's. He was dropped after the disastrous tour of England in 1985, but excellent domestic form saw him recalled in 1988-89 for the test series against the West Indies, he scored 111 and 42 in the second test and was dropped for some unknown reason after the third test. Overall his best innings seemed to be against the West Indies, and the Australian selectors always seemed to recall him when a series against them was close. But after 1988 he never appeared in the test side again.

In first class his record was very good, he scored 13352 runs, making 35 centuries and 61 half centuries. As the captain of Western Australia he lead the team to victory in three Sheffield Shield finals and another in the limited overs competition. Moves to have him outed as the Western Australian captain surfaced in 1991. Believed to be lead by then vice captain Geoff Marsh, Daryl Foster and David Smith, they managed to make a mockery of the situation by influencing the other team members to vote him out as captain, shortly after that a similar vote saw him outed from the team. At the time his batting average was an outstanding 46.33 in the Sheffield Shield competition.He retired shortly after.

Wood's ability influenced a number of other cricketers during his time, Justin Langer, Tim Zoehrer, Damien Martyn and Chris Matthews have all mentioned his influence upon their personal game.

Now employed with Fosters Brewing Group, he is also a member of the WACA board.

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• Cricinfo article on Graeme Wood

Persondata
NAME	Wood, Graeme Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Fremantle, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH