Full Name

Thomas James Matthews

Born

April 03, 1884, Mount Gambier, South Australia

Died

October 14, 1943, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, (aged 59y 194d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Legbreak

Jimmy Matthews was a small, leathery, but remarkably tough legspinner whose place in cricket history was secured when he took a hat-trick in each innings of the Old Trafford Test against South Africa during the ill-fated 1912 Triangular Tournament. Both feats came on the same day, and were his only wickets in the game. That particularly wet year was a good one for Matthews - he took 85 wickets at 19.37. He had only made his Test debut the previous winter, doing enough in the last three Tests against England to win selection for the tour. In all, he played more games on the 1912 tour (28) than he did in his entire first-class career in Australia. He did not resume playing after the war, even though he was still comparatively young, and for many years was curator at Williamstown.
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Jimmy Matthews Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50s6sCtSt
Tests81011535317.0001070
FC67991321499324.98014-560

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests8121081419164/296/5426.182.3267.5100
FC67-758245071777/46-25.463.5642.8-81
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Test

Debut/Last Matches of Jimmy Matthews

Recent Matches of Jimmy Matthews

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Victoria vs Queensland321/0 & 0/229-Jan-1915BrisbaneFC
Victoria vs NSW9 & 10/423-Jan-1915SydneyFC
Victoria vs South Aust65 & 00/2401-Jan-1915MelbourneFC
Victoria vs NSW2 & 230/826-Dec-1914MelbourneFC
Victoria vs South Aust4 & 101/83 & 1/7413-Feb-1914AdelaideFC