Famous Cricketers No 4 - F.E.Woolley

Bowling O M R W Ave BB 5wi 10wm County Championship 9 0 51 0 - - - - Other Matches 18 0 66 3 22.00 3/66 - - Total 27 0 117 3 39.00 3/66 - - Career (6 ball) 14922.3 3953 } 39309 1999 19.66 8/22 128 27 (8 ball) 235 36 1934 Woolley confounded his critics that he was passed his best with a spectacular return to form. Finally restored to health he exceeded his 1933 aggregate by over a thousand and in scoring ten Championship hundreds created a Kent record. Many of his displays were dazzling - his 100 in 63 minutes at Dover was the fastest hundred of the season and made him the first recipient of the Lawrence Trophy. Although playing second best, his 172 in Kent's record innings at Brentwood helped Bill Ashdown to add what was then the Kent record for any wicket of 352. His fine form saw him restored to the Test side at The Oval, but he had an unhappy time in what was his final Test, failing with the bat and finding himself struggling as the stand-in wicket-keeper with Ames incapacitated. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 824. Kent v Glamorgan, Arms Park, Cardiff, May 2, 3 (Kent won by an innings and 35 runs) lbw b C.C.Smart 15 332 95 202 825. Kent v Essex, Gravesend, May 5, 7, 8 (Essex won by two wickets) c M.S.Nichols b T.P.B.Smith 52 273 244 1 c J.O'Connor b L.C.Eastman 19 133 166-8 1 826. Kent v Glamorgan, Gravesend, May 12, 14, 15 (Kent won by eight wickets) c J.C.Clay b E.R.K.Glover 45 490 3.5 0 16 2 C.C.Smart c W.H.Ashdown 411 E.R.K.Glover b b E.R.K.Glover 5 176-2 - - - - 254 827. Kent v Somerset, Taunton, May 19, 21, 22 (Match drawn) st W.T.Luckes b H.F.T.Buse 121 577 - - - - 352 9 2 16 0 381-6 2 828. Kent v Gloucestershire, Bristol, May 23, 24, 25 (Kent won by 235 runs) c V.Hopkins b R.A.Sinfield 53 333 173 1 c T.W.J.Goddard b L.M.Cranfield 23 211 136 829. Kent v Hampshire, Portsmouth, May 26, 28, 29 (Match drawn) c G.Hill b O.W.Herman 9 472 473 c R.H.Moore b G.Hill 68 220-4 830. Kent v Essex, Brentwood, May 30, 31, June 1 (Kent won by an innings and 192 runs) b C.T.Ashton 172 803-4d 7 2 10 0 408 3 5 0 26 0 203 2 831. Kent v Yorkshire, Headingley, June 2, 4, 5 (Match drawn) st A.Wood b L.Hutton 106 382 - - - - 234 2 did not bat - 42-0 2 0 10 0 425-2d 832. Kent v Warwickshire, Tonbridge, June 9, 11 (Warwickshire won by an innings and 126 runs) c W.A.Hill b F.R.Santall 53 140 435 c W.A.Hill b F.R.Santall 9 169 833. Kent v Worcestershire, Tonbridge, June 13, 14, 15 (Kent won by 178 runs) c Nawab of Pataudi, sen. b R.Howorth 68 344 278 1 c H.H.I.H.Gibbons b G.W.Brook 104 304-6d 192 1 834. Kent v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, June 16, 18, 19 (Match drawn) b A.Hayhurst 33 406-9d 276 c & b G.A.E.Paine 6 139-8 86