Russell Brown "Rusty" Wood (12 December 1929 – 1 July 2015) was an English
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. Wood was a right-handed
batsman who fielded as a
wicket-keeper. He was born in
Bristol.
Wood made his
first-class debut for
Gloucestershire against
Cambridge University in 1950. He made 7 further first-class appearances, the last of which came against
Glamorgan
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in the
1951 County Championship
The 1951 County Championship was the 52nd officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 5 May to 4 September 1951. Warwickshire County Cricket Club claimed their second title.
Table
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. In his 8 first-class matches, he scored 110 runs at an
average of 12.22, with a high score of 48. This score came on debut against Cambridge University in 1950.
He died on 1 July 2015.
RUSSELL WOOD
References
External links
at ESPNcricinfo
Russell Wood
at CricketArchive
1929 births
2015 deaths
Cricketers from Bristol
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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