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Full name Graeme Malcolm Wood
Born November 6, 1956, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Current age 51 years 289 days
Major teams Australia,Western Australia
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Relations Son - C Wood
Batting and fielding averages
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
Bowling averages
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
Career statistics
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
Profile
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
