Graeme Wood

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Graeme Wood

Personal information

Full name

Graeme Malcolm Wood

Born

6 November 1956
East Fremantle, WA, Australia

Batting style

Left-handed

Bowling style

Right arm medium

Role

Opening batsman

Relations

Mike Veletta (brother-in-law)

International information

National side

Australia

Test debut (cap 293)

28 January 1978 v India

Last Test

29 December 1988 v West Indies

ODI debut (cap 46)

22 February 1978 v West Indies

Last ODI

14 January 1989 v West Indies

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1976 – 1992

Western Australia

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	59	83	227	142
Runs scored	3,374	2,219	13,353	3,641
Batting average	31.83	33.62	39.97	31.38
100s/50s	9/13	3/11	35/61	4/18
Top score	172	114*	186*	114*
Balls bowled	0	0	271	30
Wickets	–	–	6	0
Bowling average	–	–	26.00	–
5 wickets in innings	–	–	0	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	–	–
Best bowling	–	–	3/18	–
Catches/stumpings	41/–	17/–	155/–	32/–

Source: Cricinfo, 18 November 2008

Graeme Malcolm Wood (born 6 November 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, which was a West Australian record until 2001-02 when it was surpassed by Justin Langer.

International career

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-1980s. He was dropped after the disastrous Ashes tour of England in 1985. After excellent domestic form Wood was recalled in 1988/89 for the Test series against the West Indies. Wood scored 111 and 42 in the second Test, but was dropped 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.

Graeme Wood's Test career batting performance.

In first-class cricket, Wood scored 13,353 runs, making 35 centuries and 61 half centuries. As the captain of Western Australia he led the team to victory in three Sheffield Shield finals and another in the limited overs competition.

Other Sports

Prior to making his Test debut in 1978, Wood played Australian rules football for the East Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian National Football League, playing 14 games between 1975 and 1977.^[1]

Administration

In February 2007 Wood became chief executive of the Western Australian Cricket Association. He retired from the WACA in October 2011, replaced by Christina Matthews.

References

↑ Every East Fremantle Player, iprimus.com, Retrieved 12 October 2007

External links

Cricinfo article on Graeme Wood

v t e Australia squad – 1983 Cricket World Cup

1 Hughes (c) 2 Border 3 Chappell 4 Hogan 5 Hogg 6 Hookes 7 Lawson 8 Lillee 9 MacLeay 10 Marsh (wk) 11 Thomson 12 Wessels 13 Wood 14 Yallop

Persondata
Name	Wood, Graeme Malcolm
Alternative names
Short description	Cricketer
Date of birth	6 November 1956
Place of birth	East Fremantle, Western Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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