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714:"when you wrote about him, there weren't enough words. In describing a great innings by Woolley, and few of them were not great in artistry, you had to be careful with your adjectives and stack them in little rows, like pats of butter or razor-blades. In the first over of his innings, perhaps, there had been an exquisite off-drive, followed by a perfect cut, then an effortless leg-glide. In the second over the same sort of thing happened; and your superlatives had already gone. The best thing to do was to presume that your readers knew how Frank Woolley batted and use no adjectives at all." He went on: "there was all summer in a stroke by Woolley, and he batted as it is sometimes shown in dreams." In his 31: 839: 735: 548:, a Kent professional who lived in Tonbridge and who bowled slow left-arm spin, the same bowling style as Woolley. Blythe had been Woolley's childhood hero and he appears to have modelled his bowling action on the older man, holding his bowling arm behind his back as he approached the wicket—Woolley's biographer 611:, before a fine all-round performance against Surrey at The Oval in his third match–eight wickets, including five wickets for 80 runs (5/80) in Surrey's second innings, and scores of 72 and 26 not out won the match for Kent and established Woolley's reputation as a young player of significant promise. A first 561: 626:
said that "Good as he already is, Woolley will no doubt... go far ahead of his first season's doings. It is quite possible he will be the best left-handed bat in England." He had played 16 matches, scored 779 runs and took 42 wickets. It was to be the only time he did not score at least 1,000 runs in
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described Woolley as a "tall and graceful" figure who, with "a quiet air" was "unhurried in his movements". As a batsman, he had a gift for timing his shots and made full use of his long reach; he was especially strong in driving off his back foot against balls that other batsmen might consider good
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in 1887, the youngest of four brothers. His father, Charles Woolley, owned a bicycle workshop in the town's High Street and Woolley was born above the business. Charles combined his workshop with a dyeing business he had inherited from his father, but had trained as an engineer at a railway works in
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in August 1914 the English cricket season continued, although public interest declined and the social side of the game was curtailed. Woolley was married in September and did not immediately join the armed forces, instead working in his father's workshop which had been converted to manufacture
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In total Woolley played in 978 first-class matches, including a record 764 for Kent, in a career which lasted until 1938. He holds the Kent records for most career runs, centuries and catches and for total runs in a single season and is fifth on the county's list of all-time wicket takers. He
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winning sides during Woolley's early cricket career. Woolley was interested in cricket from an early age and he would play with his brothers behind his father's workshop; the brothers also watched matches on the Angel Ground from a tree which overlooked the ground. He was also a keen
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for England between 1909 and 1934 and did not miss a Test match for the side between 1909 and 1926. He scored 3,283 Test runs at an average of 36.07 and made five Test centuries. He took 83 wickets and 64 catches for the side. He was a
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gives a figure of 94,949 for the number of balls Woolley bowled during his career. CricketArchive gives an alternative figure of 94,794, whilst Derek Carlaw gives a figure of 94,824. Howard Milton, in his statistical analysis for the
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One match during Woolley's career, against The Reef in South Africa in December 1909, is sometimes given first-class status. The official status of this match is that it was not given retrospective first-class status by the
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described him as "the most stylish professional batsman in the country" and wrote that no other cricketer alive "had served the meadow game as happily and faithfully as Woolley", whilst in his obituary in
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of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season eight times. He took 132 five-wicket hauls and took 10 wickets in a match 28 times. His 1,018 catches as a fielder are the most taken by any non wicket-keeper.
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length deliveries. He was equally graceful as a bowler, making full use of his height to extract additional bounce from his deliveries. Altham pointed out that, although Woolley lacked the subtlety of
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the former captain of Surrey. Woolley played a number of other exhibition matches during the summer of 1918, including for an England side against a Dominions XI and for sides organised by
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to have held over 1,000 catches in a first-class career, whilst his total number of runs scored is the second highest of all time and his total number of wickets taken the 27th highest.
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His father's business, which eventually developed into a motor vehicle garage, was doing well by the time Woolley was a teenager, and Frank had the opportunity to attend the fee-paying
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After a single Second XI match in May 1906, a match in which he played alongside his brother Claud, Woolley was drafted into Kent's First XI for the County Championship match against
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The number of catches that Woolley held during his career has been the subject of some variation. The total of 1,018 has been generally considered accurate since 1980.
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Woolley kept wicket as an emergency replacement during one innings of his final Test match against Australia in 1934, taking a single catch during the innings.
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During the war Woolley played in a number of exhibition matches designed to entertain the public and help boost morale. After the war, he moved to
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During the 1919 English cricket season county matches were reduced to two days. Kent played only 14 County Championship matches during the season.
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suggested that the main difference was that Woolley's left-arm came from his hip pocket rather than from his right armpit as Blythe's had done.
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veterinary surgeon, in 1914. The couple had three children, a son and two daughters. Before his retirement Woolley had bought a bungalow at
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and made a number of appearances in exhibition matches, including making a century for a Lancashire side against Yorkshire during 1916.
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The minutes of the Kent Committee record the cause of Woolley's medical failure as compacted toes on both feet, whilst his biographer,
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As a bowler, Woolley was most effective before a knee injury in 1924–25. He took a total of 2,066 wickets and achieved the
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holiday camp during the early 1950s. He played twice for Old England sides, was elected a life member of both Kent and
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played 18 times for Kent's Second XI between 1906 and 1908, but went on to play over 350 first-class matches for
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Woolley impressed McCanlis and the other Nursery coaches and in 1905 he made his Kent Second XI debut against
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followed in his next match, played at the Angel Ground, and by the end of the season he had been awarded his
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in 1914, and in 1915 Woolley attempted to join them but failed his medical. He was recruited by
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from 1909 to 1934 and is generally regarded as one of cricket's greatest all-rounders. He was a
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in November 1940, and the house in Cliftonville was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941.
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obituary, R. L. Arrowsmith wrote "his average rate of scoring has been exceeded only by
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on a site large enough for him to establish a cricket school. He coached cricket at
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retired aged 51, scoring 1,590 runs in his final season. He was inducted into the
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Wisden Cricketers of the Year: A Celebration of Cricket's Greatest Players
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Robeck arranged a number of cricket matches, including at the home of
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a season in his career. Woolley achieved the feat 28 times, equalling
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as a replacement for Blythe who had injured his hand fielding. His
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and Woolley transferred to the new organisation. He was posted to
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Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918
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Woolley's oldest brother Charlie was badly wounded during the
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and Woolley's ashes were scattered at the St Lawrence Ground.
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in the 1911 edition of the almanack and was inducted into the
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Marylebone Cricket Club South African Touring Team cricketers
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described him as "as graceful a batsman as ever played".
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Hall of Fame in 2000 and made an inaugural member of the
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The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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Trophies and Tribulations: Forty Years of Kent Cricket
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Woolley had married Sybil Fordham, the daughter of an
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The same year Woolley was accepted for service by the
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at the Nursery during the cricket season. His brother
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in 1917. Woolley was attached to the ship in 1918 at
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Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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Index

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Tonbridge
Chester, Nova Scotia
medium
Slow left-arm orthodox
All-rounder
Claud Woolley
England
163
Australia
Australia
Kent
Test
First-class
Batting average
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Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings
CricInfo
cricketer
Kent County Cricket Club
England cricket team
all-rounder
batsman
bowler
wicket-keeper
Test matches

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