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About Reginald Wood
- Reginald Wood (7 March 1860 in Woodchurch, Cheshire, England – 6 January 1915 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia) had one of the oddest Test cricket careers, with only Joseph McMaster laying claim to a more unusual one.
- The son of John Wood, a Birkenhead merchant, and Montreal-born Elizabeth, he was educated at Charterhouse and played six matches for Lancashire County Cricket Club as an amateur before emigrating to Australia.
- In 1885, he played two matches as a professional for Victoria, and then, when Billy Barnes was ruled out of a number of matches in Alfred Shaw's tour of Australia in 1886-87 after Barnes hit a wall rather than Australian captain Percy McDonnell, whom he was aiming for, the Englishmen had to find a replacement quickly.
- Wood was found and played three matches for Shaw's XI, the second one of which was the Second Test.
- He did not bowl and batted at number ten, scoring 0 and 6 and after one final game with the touring Englishmen never played first-class cricket again. His life story is covered in the book Finally a Face: A Memoir of Reginald Wood by Philip Paine, which was published in 2007.
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