Michael Wood made his first grade debut for Parramatta during the 1998/99 season and is the clubs first grade player number 514.
Over the next 16 seasons Michael scored 7,098 first grade runs including 9 centuries. He took 332 wickets and took 5 wickets or more in an innings on 8 occasions.
He was twice runner up in the Bill O’Reilly Medal for the player of the season in NSW premier Cricket and was awarded life membership to the Parramatta Cricket Club in 2015.
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Has been a privilege to get to know Woody playing alongside him in Masters cricket the past couple of years. Absolute champion bloke and still good enough to play 1st grade if he wanted.