Charles Wooler
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| Full name | Charles Robert Dudley Wooler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
30 June 1930 Bulawayo, Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-hand batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949-1951 | Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1951-1956 | Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, November 17 1956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charles Robert Dudley Wooler (born June 30, 1930 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia) was a first-class cricketer who played for the Leicestershire County Cricket Club in England and the Rhodesia cricket team which competed in the Currie Cup.
Wooler was a right-arm fast-medium pace bowler and started his first-class career at Leicestershire. After making his debut in a non-championship match against Northamptonshire in 1949, he earned a regular spot in the team for the 1950 County Championship season. He finished the summer with 54 wickets at 31.31.[1] His average would have been better had he not bowled in a match against the touring West Indians who amassed 2/682 declared in their first innings. Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes both scored double hundreds while teammate Roy Marshall fell for 188. Wooler took 0/103 from his 28 overs.[2]
He took exactly 50 wickets the following summer, at a slightly better average of 28.20.[3] His 100th first-class wicket was that of Kent all-rounder Alan Shirreff.[4]
When the summer ended, Wooler traveled to Rhodesia and represented their team in the 1951/52 Currie Cup. He managed 23 wickets at 32.34 in first-class matches for Rhodesia,[5] with perhaps the biggest of those scalps being his last ever, Denis Compton of the Marylebone Cricket Club.[6]
References
- ↑ "First-class Bowling in England for 1950". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Leicestershire v West Indians 1950". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Charles Wooler". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Leicestershire v Kent 1951". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Charles Wooler". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Rhodesia v Marylebone Cricket Club 1956/57". CricketArchive.