Gerald Wood

{{short description|Barbadian cricketer}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Gerald Wood

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| fullname = Gerald Lear Wood

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1926|3|7|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Vaucluse, Saint Thomas, Barbados

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| batting = Right-handed

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| role = Wicket-keeper

| club1 = Barbados

| year1 = 1948-49 to 1958-59

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 7

| runs1 = 158

| bat avg1 = 26.33

| 100s/50s1 = 0/1

| top score1 = 53

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| catches/stumpings1 = 10/5

| date = 9 June 2018

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/53333.html Cricinfo

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Gerald Lear Wood (born 7 March 1926) is a former Barbadian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Barbados from 1949 to 1959.

Gerald Wood attended Harrison College in Bridgetown.Keith A. P. Sandiford, Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 1998, p. 43. A wicket-keeper and useful batsman, he made his first-class debut in 1949 and was Barbados's regular wicket-keeper for three years. He made a final first-class appearance in 1959, against British Guiana, when he made 53, his highest score.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23327.html| title = Barbados v British Guiana 1958-59| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =12 July 2018}}

Wood's father, Lear Wood, a prominent figure in Barbados cricket for many years, played one first-class match for Barbados in 1925.{{cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/53334.html| title = Lear Wood| publisher = Cricinfo | accessdate =12 July 2018}}