Full name Graeme Malcolm Wood
Born November 6, 1956, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Current age 64 years 79 days
Major teams Australia, Western Australia
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Relation Brother-in-law - MRJ Veletta, Son - CN Wood
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 59 | 112 | 6 | 3374 | 172 | 31.83 | 9 | 13 | 316 | 8 | 41 | 0 | ||
ODIs | 83 | 77 | 11 | 2219 | 114* | 33.62 | 3725 | 59.57 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 0 | ||
First-class | 227 | 375 | 41 | 13353 | 186* | 39.97 | 35 | 61 | 155 | 0 | ||||
List A | 142 | 132 | 16 | 3641 | 114* | 31.38 | 4 | 18 | 32 | 0 |
Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 59 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
ODIs | 83 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
First-class | 227 | 271 | 156 | 6 | 3/18 | 26.00 | 3.45 | 45.1 | 0 | 0 | |||
List A | 142 | 30 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Test debut | Australia v India at Adelaide, Jan 28-Feb 3, 1978 scorecard |
Last Test | Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Dec 24-29, 1988 scorecard |
Test statistics | |
ODI debut | West Indies v Australia at St John's, Feb 22, 1978 scorecard |
Last ODI | Australia v West Indies at Melbourne, Jan 14, 1989 scorecard |
ODI statistics | |
First-class span | 1976/77 - 1991/92 |
List A span | 1977/78 - 1991/92 |
Graeme Wood was an opening batsman who saw off a difficult time in Australian cricket to become one of its mainstay players in the early 1980s. Wood had a rapid rise to the international ranks, making his Test debut against India as a 21-year-old in 1978 after several of Australia's leading players defected to World Series Cricket. He rewarded selectors later that year on a torrid tour of the West Indies, scoring a debut century and four half-centuries to top the Test series run aggregates (474 runs at 47.40). Other Test highlights included a century in the 1980 Centenary Test against England at Lord's; and 111 to set up victory in the low-scoring First Test against New Zealand in Brisbane in 1980-81. He also had a fine 1981-82 season. Wood regularly opened for Australia until the end of the 1985 Ashes tour. He played his last Tests against Pakistan and the West Indies in 1988-89, when recalled as a middle-order batsman. His nine Test centuries was a West Australian record jointly held with Kim Hughes and only passed in 2001-02 by Justin Langer. He went on to work for Foster's for 18 years, some of those as state manager and then at national level. But he returned to a full-time role in cricket when in February 2007 he became the WACA chief executive, having sat on their selection panel for several years.
Anthony Fallick February 2007