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AD Woodford

1944-45 to 1946-47 · 20 matches for the club

Debut v Collingwood, 1944-45 (18 Nov 1944)Last game v Richmond, 1946-47 (5 Nov 1946)Player no. 267 to appear for the club

Around this dayin 1946: 0/10 and 1 ct v Richmond in 1945: 11 and 1/73 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne

20

Matches

86

Runs

7.17

Average

17

Highest

0 / 0

100s / 50s

27

Wickets

29.37

Bowling avg

5/21

Best

12

Catches

Season by season

SeasonMInnNORunsHSAvgOversWktsBestCt
1944-455301986.3361 (8)53/624
1945-461210264178.00142.2 (8)215/216
1946-47310333.0026 (8)11/612
Career2014286177.17229.2 (8-ball)275/2112

Milestones

  1. DebutFirst matchv Collingwood, 1944-45
  2. First five-for5/21v Brunswick, 1945-46
  3. Highest score17v Collingwood, 1945-46
  4. Best bowling5/21v Brunswick, 1945-46
  5. Last matchMatch 20v Richmond, 1946-47

Runs by season

1944-45: 19 runs1944-451945-46: 64 runs6445-461946-47: 3 runs346-47

Wickets by season

1944-45: 5 wickets544-451945-46: 21 wickets2145-461946-47: 1 wickets146-47

Every innings, in order

501944-45 v Northcote: 51944-45 v Northcote: 81944-45 v St Kilda: 61945-46 v Collingwood: 171945-46 v Carlton: 51945-46 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 111945-46 v Brunswick: 21945-46 v Richmond: 01945-46 v Northcote: 1*1945-46 v Essendon: 15*1945-46 v South Melbourne: 11945-46 v North Melbourne: 31945-46 v University: 91946-47 v St Kilda: 3

Lighter bars are not-out innings. Hover a bar for the match.

Against each club

St Kilda3964.50255.501/33
Camberwell Magpies2171717.00624.673/62
Northcote21487.00425.004/65
Melbourne University2999.00153.001/8
Casey South Melbourne2111.001102.001/61
Richmond2000.00155.001/45
Essendon11515*–139.001/39
Kingston Hawthorn1111111.00173.001/73
Carlton1555.0043.504/14
Greenvale Kanagaroos1333.000–0/12
Brunswick1222.0059.805/211
Melbourne1––––––
Prahran1–––137.001/37

Clubs that merged are counted as one, under today's name. Tap a heading to sort; open a club for every match against it.

Splits

By batting position
PosInnNORunsHSAvg0s
810999.00
95041178.20
10623315*8.25
1120331.501

Batted most often at 10th.

Scores and consistency
  • Ducks1
  • 1–910
  • 10–193
  • 20–290
  • 30–490
  • 50–990
  • 100+0

3.2% of the side's runs in the innings batted.

Dismissals
  • Caught5 · 42%
  • Bowled3 · 25%
  • Stumped2 · 17%
  • LBW1 · 8%
  • Run out1 · 8%
In wins and losses
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
In wins201296.00
In losses1025215*6.501
In draws20221711.00
MWktsAvgWkts / match
In wins7451.250.6
In losses101630.501.6
In draws2714.293.5
  • Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 0 of 1 (0%), lost 1.
  • Every other match: the side won 8 of 19 (42%), lost 9.
Batting first or second
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Batting first4022115.50
Batting second9256178.001
Second innings of the match10888.00
By ground
GroundMInnRunsHSAvgWktsBowl avgBest
Fitzroy Cricket Ground14106515*7.221830.445/21
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote1111*–416.254/65
Victoria Park11171717.00328.673/86
Richmond Cricket Ground11000.00145.001/45
North Melbourne Cricket Ground11333.00––0/12
Toorak Park100––137.001/37
Albert Ground100–––––
Wickets taken
  • Caught12 · 44%
  • Bowled8 · 30%
  • Caught & bowled3 · 11%
  • LBW3 · 11%
  • Stumped1 · 4%

Batters dismissed

  • Top order (1–3)7 · 26%
  • Middle order (4–7)12 · 44%
  • Lower order (8–11)8 · 30%

1 five-wicket haul. Best in a match: 5/49 v Brunswick, 1945-46. Wicket types count only matches where the card's dismissals add up to the bowling figures.

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1944-45 to 1946-47: 31st of 38 for runs, 18th of 31 for wickets, 29th of 38 for matches, 26th of 38 for catches.

Under Fitzroy: 185th of 321 for runs, 59th of 172 for wickets, 124th of 345 for matches, 95th of 279 for catches.

Played like…

  • ZJ Parr2018-19 to 2025-26 · 38 m · 115 runs · 51 wkts
  • Gurnaz Khatra2023-24 to 2025-26 · 26 m · 150 runs · 32 wkts
  • J Paterson1963-64 to 1964-65 · 15 m · 47 runs · 24 wkts
  • MS Bullen2016-17 to 2017-18 · 27 m · 32 runs · 39 wkts

The careers nearest Woodford’s in length, runs and wickets a match, average and the balance of batting to bowling.

The shape of the career

Season by season

1944-45: 5 matches, 19 runs, 5 wickets1944-451945-46: 12 matches, 64 runs, 21 wickets · 1st XI Bowling1945-461946-47: 3 matches, 3 runs, 1 wicket1946-47

Runs, up Wickets, down Honour in his name

1945-46: 1st XI Bowling

The arc

AD Woodford's best season with the bat was 1945-46: 64 runs from 10 innings at 8.00. The best ten-innings patch came in 1944-45 to 1945-46: 70 runs at 8.75. The leanest, 1945-46 to 1946-47: 50 runs at 6.25.

Rolling average, innings 5 to 14: 6.3 to 8.88.8

Batting average over the last ten innings, at each innings of the career.

Milestones

MilestoneWhenMatch
First five-for5/2117 Nov 1945v Brunswick, 1945-46

Streaks

Consecutive matches played: 15 matches
from v Collingwood, 1945-46 to v Richmond, 1946-47 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 11 matches
from v St Kilda, 1944-45 to v Prahran, 1945-46 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 3 matches bowled in
from v South Melbourne, 1945-46 to v University, 1945-46 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 4 innings
from v South Melbourne, 1945-46 to v St Kilda, 1946-47 · first · last

More splits

Batting position over the years16111944-45: 9 (3 inns, avg 6.33)1945-46: 10 (10 inns, avg 8.00)1946-47: 11 (1 inns, avg 3.00)194419451946

Batted at 9th for 1 season, dropped to 10th from 1945-46, dropped to 11th from 1946-47.

SeasonUsual spotInnAvg
1944-45936.33
1945-4610108.00
1946-471113.00
Home and away
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Home141016515*7.221830.44
Away64121177.00927.22

Home taken as the ground the club played at most in each season: Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Schramms Reserve.

By day
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Saturday1814286177.172628.69
Weekday2000––147.00
Month by month
MonthMInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Oct43025178.33821.50
Nov42013116.50921.56
Dec4411484.67529.00
Jan4212115*21.00444.00
Feb320432.00184.00
Mar110999.00
Favourite victims
  1. KJ Smith × 2
  2. AG Andrew-Street × 1
  3. CE Kerville × 1
  4. CG Milne × 1
  5. EP Shaw × 1
  6. FA Lalor × 1
  7. G Searle × 1
  8. GG Pitcher × 1
Fielding
SeasonMCt
1944-4554
1945-46126
1946-4732

Caught most off

  1. IT Clay × 4
  2. AD Woodford × 3
  3. ME Sykes × 2
  4. HAE Shillinglaw × 1
  5. HJ Plant × 1
  6. J Frederick × 1

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SeasonOpponentBattingBowling
1944-45Collingwooddnb3/62Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Northcote5 & 80/30 & 0/5Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Melbournednb–Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45St Kilda61/63 & 0/4Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Universitydnb1/8 & 0/23Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Collingwood173/86Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Carlton54/14Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Hawthorn-East Melbourne111/73Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Brunswick25/21 & 0/28Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Richmond01/45Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Northcote1*4/65Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46St Kildadnb1/33Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Essendon15*1/39Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Prahrandnb1/37Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46South Melbourne10/41Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46North Melbourne30/12Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46University90/22Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47South Melbournednb1/61Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47St Kilda30/11Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47Richmonddnb0/10Something wrong? Tell us

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