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Woodfull scored 118 in a one-off match between his XI and Richardson's XI, which ended in a draw.
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During a 20-year playing career, Bradman consistently scored at a level that made him, in the words of former Australia captain Bill Woodfull, " worth three batsmen to Australia ".
At the end of the 1924 – 25 season, Woodfull scored 522 runs in four innings, including three centuries.
Regarded as one of the last players selected, Woodfull scored a double century and century in his first two innings in England to earn his debut in the first Test.
After losing the first Test, Woodfull scored a century as Australia levelled the series and they won the fifth Test to regain the Ashes.
When the England cricket team toured Australia in 1920 – 21, Woodfull played for a Ballarat XV, and scored 50 and 1.
In the first match of the 1922 – 23 season, Woodfull scored 74 run out and four not out as Victoria scraped past the Marylebone Cricket Club by two wickets.
Woodfull scored 212 not out against Canterbury, before scoring 110, 50 and 150 against New Zealand without being dismissed at all.
After making a duck against the Marylebone Cricket Club, which was a dress rehearsal for the Tests as the MCC fielded a virtual England team, Woodfull scored an unbeaten 98 against Cambridge University before running out of partners.
It capped off an unhappy June for Woodfull ; he had scored only 120 runs at 13. 33 for the month, with rain interruptions being frequent.
Woodfull then scored his first Test century in Australia, with 111 in the second innings to force the tourists to bat again.
The teams returned to Melbourne for the fifth Test, where Woodfull scored 102 and 35 in front of his home crowd as Australia won by five wickets.
Woodfull then won the toss for the first time and contributed 50 to a stand of 192 with Bradman in the third Test at Headingley ( the match in which Bradman scored 309 in a day ).
Woodfull scored 54 as the fourth Test was rained out before the second innings.
Woodfull won the toss and after England made 405, he scored 54 as Australia amassed 695 to win by an innings and regain the Ashes 2 – 1.
Woodfull scored 74 and 58 as Australia took innings victories in the first two Tests over the South Africans in Brisbane and Sydney.
Woodfull scored only seven in the first innings, as Australia made only 198 and South Africa took a 160-run lead.
Overall, Woodfull had scored 305 runs at a moderate 33. 89 average — it was the slowest scoring rate for his career, but significantly, he had defied the English bowling for over twenty hours in total, more than any other Australian.
Woodfull scored fifties in both interstate matches against New South Wales and added consecutive centuries for the national team against Tasmania before departing for his final tour of England.
In the first innings, Woodfull scored 81 as Australia batted first and made 237.
Miller scored 12 not out on debut, but observers felt he would succeed with a stronger physique ; Woodfull wrote in the 1936 school magazine, " Miller has Test possibilities ".
Australia then scored 351 with 107 by their captain Bill Woodfull and a maiden Test century by Don Bradman.
Woodfull and 118
In his first two first-class innings on tour, Woodfull struck a 201 against Essex at Leyton and a 118 against Surrey at The Oval.
The hosts enforced the follow on as rain breathed life into the pitch, and Woodfull made 43 as Australia were all out for 118 in an innings defeat.
Woodfull and match
The match was drawn and Woodfull struggled, making 18 and a duck.
As rain threatened to end the match between Victoria and MCC in 1928-29, the MCC bowler Fred Barratt rolled the ball along to allow Bill Woodfull to score a four to complete his hundred and Victoria to win.
After scoring a century in his second match, Woodfull was promoted to open the following season, and he opened for the rest of his career.
Although England easily won 4 – 1, Woodfull stood firm to score three centuries in the last four Tests, and added his best first-class score for 275 not out in a tour match against the Englishmen.
After the first Test, which Australia lost heavily, Woodfull was not confirmed as captain until just before the start of the next match, prompting speculation that the Australian Board of Control might remove him for refusing to retaliate.
Batting at No. 7 in his second match against Western Australia, Woodfull registered his maiden first-class century with 153.
After three matches without passing 53, Woodfull added 97 and 236 in a match against South Australia.
Woodfull made his debut in the first Test at Trent Bridge, but it was an anti-climax ; Australia did not bat in a washed-out match as England reached 0 / 32 when rain ended play.
It was another rain-affected draw in a wet summer, Woodfull followed this with 156 in another weather-curtailed match against Surrey.
In the closing stages of the tour, Woodfull compiled his eighth and final century of the campaign, an unbeaten 116 against an England XI in a drawn match.
Woodfull prepared for the Tests with an unbeaten 67 for Victoria in a drawn tour match against Percy Chapman's touring Englishmen.
In a tour match against the Englishmen, Woodfull made 275 not out for Victoria, his highest score for his state.
During the match, Woodfull was captain and had agreed with English captain Chapman to vary rules that had been laid by the Australian Board of Control.
The tour started with a match against Worcestershire, with Woodfull scoring a century and Don Bradman making 236 * in 275 minutes.
Woodfull started the season strongly, scoring 74 and 83 in a loss to New South Wales in the second match of the summer, but was soon confronted by Jardine's Englishmen.
This changed in the next match, when Woodfull led an Australian XI against the tourists in Melbourne, in what was effectively a Test rehearsal.
The match was drawn and Woodfull struggled, making 18 and a duck.
Australia led by 106 on the first innings and although Woodfull was so concerned with batting England out of the match that he declared with less than five hours remaining on the final day, his men went on to win by 238 runs, albeit with only ten minutes of play remaining.
Woodfull made a duck in the fourth Test at Headingley, but another Bradman triple century put them in control before rain shortened the match ; England still needed 155 runs to make Australia bat again with only four wickets in hand when the match ended.
Woodfull was criticised by Robinson for his relatively defensive captaincy, tending to bat opponents out of the match instead of going directly for victory from the off.
Other factors speculated to have contributed to his omission included a dispute that Fingleton had with Woodfull during a Sheffield Shield match, and interstate rivalries between New South Wales and Victoria causing Fingleton's omission at the expense of an additional Victorian.
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