#frank woolley

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Frank Woolley's Final Test — The Oval, August 1934

England v Australia

1934-08-25

Recalled at the age of 47 for England's final Ashes Test in 1934 after a six-year Test absence, Frank Woolley made 4 and 0 and was bypassed for the squads that followed. The Oval Test marked the end of one of cricket's most graceful and prolific careers — 64 Tests, 58,969 first-class runs, all of them lit by what John Arlott later called 'a cool, almost insolent grace'.

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South Africa in England 1929 — Cameron's Tourists Lose 2-0

England v South Africa

1929-08-19

Nummy Deane's South Africans played five Tests in England in the long summer of 1929, losing the series 0-2 with three drawn but providing Hammond, Sutcliffe and Woolley with their first sustained run of home Test runs since 1926.

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Frank Woolley's Peak — 3,000 Runs and 100 Wickets in 1925

Kent and England

1925-08-31

In 1925 the 38-year-old Frank Woolley scored 3,069 first-class runs and took 110 wickets — one of the great all-round seasons in English county cricket and the formal peak of a career that would finish with 58,969 runs and 2,068 wickets, both still among the top five in cricket history.

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Frank Woolley's Decade — The Pride of Kent Comes Into His Own, 1910-1914

England

1914-07-01

Frank Woolley emerged in the years 1910-1914 as the most beautiful left-handed batsman in cricket — Kent's all-round star, England's middle-order hope and, after the war, one of only nine men to score over 50,000 first-class runs.

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