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Full name Matthew James Wood
Born September 30, 1980, Exeter, Devon
Current age 27 years 300 days
Major teams Devon,Nottinghamshire,Somerset
Nickname Woody, Gran, Mo
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height
5 ft 11 in
Education Exmouth College; Exeter University
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
86
149
7
4785
297
33.69
9051
52.86
9
30
30
0
List A
80
76
4
2040
129
28.33
2
14
12
0
Twenty20
30
30
0
869
94
28.96
629
138.15
0
5
105
12
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
86
85
68
0
-
-
-
4.80
-
0
0
0
List A
80
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
30
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
2001
Last First-class
Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire at Nottingham, Jul 22-25, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000
Last List A
Nottinghamshire v Hampshire at Nottingham, Jul 20, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Gloucestershire v Somerset at Bristol, Jul 9, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire at Nottingham, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Matthew Wood was appointed Somerset vice-captain in July 2005 following the departure of Graeme Smith and seemed to enjoy the responsibility going on to score over a 1000 runs in the Championship for the first time in his career, including 297 against Yorkshire, at the time the fifth highest score by a Somerset batsman. This followed years of underachievement from a player who had shown his promise when winning Somerset's Player-of-the-Year award in 2002. Unfortunately Wood could not build on this in 2006 as he averaged only 23 in the Championship and eventually opted for a move to Nottinghamshire for 2008 Sam Collins April 2008
