 Australia (AUS) |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Legbreak | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 8 | 67 |
| Runs scored | 153 | 2149 |
| Batting average | 17.00 | 24.98 |
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 0/14 |
| Top score | 53 | 93 |
| Balls bowled | 1081 | 7582 |
| Wickets | 16 | 177 |
| Bowling average | 26.18 | 25.46 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 8 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 1 |
| Best bowling | 4/29 | 7/46 |
| Catches/stumpings | 7/0 | 56/0 |
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Test debut: 12 January, 1912 |
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Thomas James Matthews (3 April 1884, Mount Gambier, South Australia - 14 October 1943, Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian Test cricketer. He bowled leg breaks. Prior to becoming a cricketer he played Australian rules football with St Kilda in the VFL.
He played in eight Test matches for the Australian cricket team, two in Australia in the 1911/12 season, and six in the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England. He played first-class cricket for Victoria in the seasons from 1906/07 to 1914/15, playing in 67 first-class matches in all, although 28 were played for Australia on the 1912 tour of England.
He is famed for being the only player to have ever taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match. In the opening Test of the 1912 Triangular Tournament, playing against South Africa at Old Trafford, he took a hat-trick in each innings. He took the last three wickets in South Africa's first innings, to prevent them avoiding the follow on; later the same day, 28 May 1912, he took a second hat-trick in the second innings. None of the dismissals required the assistance of any fielders: the first batsman was bowled, then two were leg before wicket, then another bowled, and finally two more caught and bowled. South African wicket-keeper Tommy Ward was his third victim in both hat-tricks, being the only known instance of a king pair on debut in Test cricket.
Matthews took no other wickets in the match, giving him match figures of 6 wickets for 54 runs, but he did take a further 9 wickets in the series, including 4/29 in the fifth match of the series, again against South Africa.
  | AFL Statistics: Jimmy Matthews - AFL Tables - Jimmy Matthews - Statistics |
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