Charles Wooler

Charles Wooler
Personal information
Full name Charles Robert Dudley Wooler
Born (1930-06-30) 30 June 1930
Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Batting Right-hand batsman
Bowling Right-arm fast-medium
Role Bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1949-1951 Leicestershire
1951-1956 Rhodesia
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 60
Runs scored 832
Batting average 10.80
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 49*
Balls bowled 8732
Wickets 130
Bowling average 31.00
5 wickets in innings 3
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5-47
Catches/stumpings 16/0
Source: CricketArchive, November 17 1956

Charles Robert Dudley Wooler (born June 30, 1930 in Bulawayo, Southern 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

  1. ↑ "First-class Bowling in England for 1950". CricketArchive.
  2. ↑ "Leicestershire v West Indians 1950". CricketArchive.
  3. ↑ "First-class Bowling in Each Season by Charles Wooler". CricketArchive.
  4. ↑ "Leicestershire v Kent 1951". CricketArchive.
  5. ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Charles Wooler". CricketArchive.
  6. ↑ "Rhodesia v Marylebone Cricket Club 1956/57". CricketArchive.
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