Editing Bob Woolmer (section)

==Early life==
Woolmer was born in the Georgina McRobert Memorial Hospital across the road from the [[Green Park Stadium]] in [[Kanpur]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/672788 |title=Born in one country, played for another |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref> India on 14 May 1948. His father was the cricketer [[Clarence Woolmer]], who represented [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]) in the [[Ranji Trophy]]. At the age of 10, Woolmer witnessed [[Hanif Mohammad]] scoring 499, setting a world record for the highest score in [[first-class cricket]].<ref name="Coincidence">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/603071.html |title=ESPNcricinfo XI: Coincidences in cricket &#124; Cricinfo Magazine |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=2013-08-02}}</ref> Some 35 years later, Woolmer, as coach of [[Warwickshire|Warwickshire County Cricket Club]], was watching when the county's batsman [[Brian Lara]] passed that mark, setting a new record of 501 [[not out]].<ref name="Coincidence"/>

Woolmer went to school in [[Kent]], first at [[Yardley Court]] in [[Tonbridge]] and then [[The Skinners' School]] in [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]]. When he was 15, [[Colin Page]], the coach and captain of the Kent second XI, converted him from an off-spinner to a medium pace bowler.

Woolmer's first job was as a sales representative for [[Imperial Chemical Industries|ICI]], and his first senior cricket was with the [[Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club]] and with Kent's second XI.