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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Frank Edward Woolley was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and for the England cricket team. A genuine all-rounder, Woolley was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler. He was an outstanding fielder close to the wicket and is the only non wicket-keeper 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.
Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.
It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.
I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.
Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.
Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.
It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.
I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.