Samuel Moses James Woods (1867-1931) Test Cap # 54

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Full name Samuel Moses James Woods
Born April 13, 1867, Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died April 30, 1931, Taunton, Somerset (aged 64 years 17 days)
Major teams Australia, England, Cambridge University, Somerset
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

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Samuel "Sammy" Moses James Woods, one of the most famous and popular of athletes, a splendid cricketer and a great Rugby football forward, was born at Glenfield near Sydney on April 14, 1867, and died on April 30 at Taunton. A player of grand physique, cheery disposition, and unflinching courage, he was generally at his best against the strongest and never knew when he was beaten. Although essentially an all-rounder and a most efficient and inspiring captain, it is on his bowling that his fame will chiefly rest. He was fast and accurate and had at his command not only a deadly yorker but also a slow ball which was as formidable and deceptive as any he sent down. Unquestionably he reached a measure of excellence which entitled him to a place among the great fast bowlers of all time.

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Essentially a forcing batsman Woods drove tremendously hard especially to the on. He used his reach, great strength and sure eye to hit at the pitch of the ball without leaving his crease. Often he knocked the most accurate bowlers off their length and he could cut any short ball with a swing of his massive shoulders and arms, sending the ball at tremendous speed past cover-point. While Woods preferred the fast scoring game he could, in case of need, adopt a sound, correct method and then he excelled in off-side driving. As with age his effectiveness with the ball declined he used the bat to greater purpose. His highest scoring season was 1895 when he made 1,405 runs with an average of 34. This he surpassed four years later with a record of 40 an innings.

He received his early education at Sydney Grammar School and Royston College, Sydney, and at the latter institution showed such ability as a bowler that in 1883 he took seventy wickets for five runs each and on one occasion obtained seven wickets in seven balls.

Test debut England v Australia at Lord's, Jul 16-17, 1888 

Last TestSouth Africa v England at Cape Town, Mar 21-23, 1896 

First-class span 1888-1910

George Henry Stevens Trott (1866-1917) Test Cap # 53

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Full name George Henry Stevens Trott
Born August 5, 1866, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Died November 10, 1917, Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 51 years 97 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

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George Henry Stevens "Harry" Trott, born August 5, 1866; died at Melbourne, November 12. Came to England in 1888, 1890, 1893, and 1896. Australia has produced greater cricketers than Harry Trott, but in his day he held a place in the front rank of the world's famous players. He was a first-rate bat, a fine field at point, and his leg breaks made him a very effective change bowler. Four times he came to England--first in 1888, again in 1890 and 1893, and, finally, in 1896, when he had the honour of captaining the team. As a leader in the field he perhaps gained even more distinction than as an all-round player. Ranjitsinhji considered him a better captain than Darling, and beyond that praise could hardly go.

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The personal popularity that Harry Trott enjoyed in 1896 wherever he went was remarkable. One is inclined to think that no Australian captain before or since, was liked so much by his opponents. By sheer force of character he overcame the disadvantages involved in lack of education, and won the warm regard of men with whom, apart from the comradeship of the cricket field, he had nothing in common. In managing his team he owed much to his equable temper and innate tact. Knowing all the little weaknesses and vanities of the men under his command, he believed in a policy of kindly encouragement. Never outwardly disturbed by the state of the game, he could inspire even the most despondent with something of his own cheerfulness. He played cricket in the best possible spirit, taking victory and defeat with the same calm philosophy.

Test debut England v Australia at Lord's, Jul 16-17, 1888 

Last TestAustr alia v England at Sydney, Feb 26-Mar 2, 1898 

First-class span 1885-1908

John Dunlop Edwards (1860-1911) Test Cap # 52

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Full name John Dunlop Edwards
Born June 12, 1860, Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria
Died July 31, 1911, Hawksburn, Victoria (aged 51 years 49 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

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John Dunlop Edwards was an Australian cricketer who played in three Tests in England in 1888. A short and slight man, Edwards attended Wesley College and made his first-class debut for Victoria in 1880–81. He hit his highest score the following summer (65 against the touring English team) before he was transferred to Bendigo in his job as a bank clerk.His statistics show that he made three ducks from six innings, achieving an average of 9.60, batting in the middle order in all three matches. Edwards did only a little better in first-class cricket, playing in 50 matches for Victoria at an average of 13.62.

Test debut England v Australia at Lord's, Jul 16-17, 1888
Last Test England v Australia at Manchester, Aug 30-31, 1888 
First-class span 1880-1890

John James Lyons (1863-1827) Test Cap # 51

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Full name John James Lyons
Born May 21, 1863, Gawler, South Australia
Died July 21, 1927, Magill, Adelaide, South Australia (aged 64 years 61 days)
Major teams Australia, South Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

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 John James Lyons, born at Gawler, in South Australia, on May 21, 1863, died in Adelaide on July 21, aged 64. He visited this country on three occasions--in 1888, 1890, and 1893. Those whose cricket memories go back over 30 years, will remember him as a very fine hitter indeed.

Walter Frank Giffen (1861-1949) Test Cap # 50

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Full name Walter Frank Giffen
Born September 20, 1861, Norwood, Adelaide, South Australia
Died June 28, 1949, North Unley, Adelaide, South Australia (aged 87 years 281 days)
Major teams Australia, South Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat

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Walter Frank Giffen was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests between 1887 and 1892. He was the brother of the great all-rounder George Giffen.Giffen has been called "one of the worst Test batsmen of all time and it was alleged that he played Test cricket only because his brother refused to play unless Walter was also selected.Giffen lost the tops of two fingers when he got his left hand trapped between a pair of cog-wheels in 1886.Giffen worked for the South Australian Gas Company for nearly 50 years.

One of the least successful Test batsmen of all time, there isn't much doubt that Walter Giffen was only picked for Australia's tour of  England in 1893 because his famous brother George twisted a few arms. That wasn't the part of Walter's body the Australian selectors had in mind after a Test career which yielded scores of 2, 0, 1, 3, 3 and 2. Poor Walter might have done better if he hadn't lost the tops of  two fingers when he got his left hand trapped between a pair of cog-wheels in 1886. He was a sound batsman and concentrated mainly on defence. He hit many hundreds in Adelaide club cricket and played for South Australia. As a fieldsman he excelled in the deep.

Test debut Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1887

Last Test Australia v England at Adelaide, Mar 24-28, 1892

First-class span 1882-1902

John Thomas Cottam (1867-1897) Test Cap # 49

Full name John Thomas Cottam
Born September 5, 1867, Strawberry Hills, New South Wales
Died January 30, 1897, Coolgardie, Western Australia (aged 29 years 147 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

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John Thomas Cottam (5 September 1867 in Sydney, New South Wales – 30 January 1897 in Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1887.Cottam played in only one first-class match - for New South Wales against the touring English cricket team - before making his Test debut in the Second Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Cottam made just four runs as Australia lost by 71 runs Cottam's career in cricket would end shortly after his Test debut. The former cricketer was lured to the goldfields at Coolgardie, Western Australia, near Kalgoorlie,

John Cottam, who died from typhoid, aged 29, in Western Australia on January 30, 1897, was one of five men drafted in to the Australian Test team at Sydney in 1886-87 because several established players had demanded, and been refused, payment for loss of earnings from their regular jobs. Cottam was 19 and had played only one first-class game for New South Wales against England, and even for that he was a last-minute choice. In the Test he was out for one and three and never played for Australia again. He never even played Sheffield Shield cricket though he did tour New Zealand with a state team in 1889-90, batting well on bad wickets- He was reported to be a powerfully-built man, a stylish bat and a popular performer; his drift away from cricket in the eight years before his death remains a mystery

Only Test Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1887 

First-class span 1886-1890

Frederick John Burton (1865-1929) Test Cap # 48

Full name Frederick John Burton
Born November 2, 1865, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Died August 25, 1929, Wanganui, New Zealand (aged 63 years 296 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Other Umpire

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Frederick John Burton played first-class cricket for New South Wales, Victoria and in 2 Tests in 1887 and 1888 for Australia.He later lived in New Zealand where he was an established cricket umpire. He was chosen to keep wicket for Australia in the Second Test of the 1886-87 series when Jack Blackham was unavailable. Blackham returned for the only Test of the following season but Burton was retained as a batsman even though his career average was only 15 - he was out for one in each innings.His best score was 47 for New South Wales against Victoria in 1887-88 when he batted three hours and helped Harry Moses in a stand of 185; Moses went on to make 297. Burton later settled in New Zealand and died in Wanganui.

Test debut Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1887
Last Test Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 10-15, 1888
First-class span 1885-1896

Reginald Charles Allen (1858-1952) Test Cap # 47

Full name Reginald Charles Allen
Born July 2, 1858, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales
Died May 2, 1952, Sydney, New South Wales (aged 93 years 305 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

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Reginald Charles Allen (2 July 1858 in Glebe, New South Wales – 2 May 1952 in Sydney) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match against England in 1886-87.Allen also played for New South Wales and was top scorer in the first innings of the state match against the England team – under the name "A. Shaw's XI" – that immediately preceded the second Test.He batted at No 3 in his only Test, scored 14 and 30, and took two catches. In his second innings, he was caught by one of his own side, Charlie Turner, who was fielding as a substitute for England. His obituary in Wisden in 1953 says that he turned down the opportunity to tour England.He was the uncle of the England Test captain Gubby Allen, who was born in Australia.

Only Test Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1887
First-class span 1878-1888

Charles Thomas Biass Turner (1862-1944) Test Cap # 46

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Full name Charles Thomas Biass Turner
Born November 16, 1862, Bathurst, New South Wales
Died January 1, 1944, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales (aged 81 years 46 days)
Major teams Australia (Test: 1886/87-1894/95); New South Wales (1882/83-1909/10);
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

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Charles Thomas Biass "Charlie" Turner, a bowler ranking with the best ever produced by Australia, and by many who played against him considered without superior, died on New Year's Day in Sydney, aged 81. Records that stand to his name tell of his work with the ball, but it is remarkable that in the first set of photographs that appeared in Wisden he is holding a bat and wearing pads in company with his colleague J. J. Ferris, grasping a ball in his left hand. Chosen with G. A. Lohmann, of Surrey, Robert Peel, of Yorkshire, John Briggs, of Lancashire, and S. M. J. Woods, of Cambridge University and Somerset--himself an Australian--the two members of the team captained by P. S. McDonnell fully deserved the honour, for they practically dominated every match in which they played on this their first visit to England. In a season when bowlers accomplished wonderful things, almost beyond belief in these days, Turner took 314 wickets at 11.12 runs apiece and Ferris 224 at 14.10 each-- G. H. S. Trott coming next with 48 at 23.41.

In nine matches against specially chosen sides, three representing England, 70 wickets fell to Turner and 41 to Ferris, seven others claiming only 23 between them. The habit prevailed at that time or relying upon two or three bowlers on a side for the chief work of the season and McDonnell carried this custom to the extremelimit, but of the other specialists picked by C. F. Pardon, Lohmann for Surrey was almost as supreme with 253 wickets at 10.69, Beaumont, with 59, giving most help in carrying off the championship in this year of bowlers' triumphs mainly on rain-affected pitches.

Test debut Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 28-31, 1887

Last Test Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 1-4, 1895

First-class span 1882-1910

Hugh Hamon Massie (1854-1938) Test Cap # 45

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Full name Hugh Hamon Massie

Born April 11, 1854, near Belfast (now Port Fairy), Victoria
Died October 12, 1938, Point Piper, New South Wales (aged 84 years 184 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
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Hugh Hamon Massie was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia.Massie's role in the 1882 Ashes Test at The Oval was almost as pivotal in deciding the result as Fred Spofforth's celebrated performance with the ball.With Charles Bannerman as his opening partner, the hard-hitting Massie scored 55 in 57 minutes from just sixty deliveries, with nine fours, to give the Australians a chance.They duly took the match to win by seven runs.His son Robert John 'Jack' Allwright Massie was also a noted New South Wales cricketer.

Hugh Massie was an Ashes Legend, but his brave son Jack never wore the baggy green. No writer of fiction would have dared to invent the character of Jack Massie. A young giant, powerful enough to excel at boxing, rowing and rugby, little enough to be a champion hurdler, pricise enough to be and expert rifle shot and with the fine co-ordination of an outstanding cricketer.

That would be hard enough to credit. But who would suspend disbelief so far to accept that such an athlete could also be a brilliant scholar, a successful buisnessman and an unflinchingly courageous, highly decorated war hero? Massies story is almost unbelievable.

John James Ferris (1867-1900) Test Cap # 44

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Full name John James Ferris
Born May 21, 1867, Sydney, New South Wales
Died November 17, 1900, Addington, Durban, Natal, South Africa (aged 33 years 180 days)
Major teams Australia, England, Gloucestershire, New South Wales, South Australia
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm bowler

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John James Ferris (21 May 1867 in Sydney – 17 November 1900 in Durban), a left-arm swing bowler, was one of the few cricketers to play Test cricket for more than one country.Born in Sydney, Australia, Ferris made his first-class debut for New South Wales against Alfred Shaw's touring English team on his home ground in 1886/87. He took seven wickets in the match, including five in the second innings,and after several more good displays was selected for the first Test, also at Sydney. The England first innings was a disaster as they collapsed to what remains their lowest Test total of 45 all out, Ferris bowling unchanged with Charlie Turner, but despite his nine wickets in the game England, inspired by Billy Barnes' second-innings 6–28, scraped to a 13-run win.

Ferris took another nine-wicket haul in the second Test, but again England were victorious, though in the only Test of the 1887/88 tour he could manage "only" six as the Englishmen came out on top yet again. He went with the Australians to England in 1888, and at Lord's for the first time in his career played in a winning Test side, his partnership with Turner accounting for no less than eighteen England wickets as Australia recorded a 61-run win. The Ashes remained in England, however, as the home side won the other two Tests. In 1889 Ferris was named as one of the first Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

He went to England again in 1890, taking 13 wickets in another series defeat and no less than 186 in the season as a whole, but then moved there permanently, playing a single Test for his adopted country against South Africa in 1891/92. Coincidentally, his former Australian team-mate Billy Murdoch also made his first England appearance in this match, which was not given Test status until some time later. Ferris' performance helped crush the home side by an innings and 189 runs, but it was to prove his final international appearance. He had taken 61 Test wickets at an average of just 12.70 only George Lohmann had a better career average.

Ferris played several seasons of county cricket (1892–1895) with Gloucestershire, for whom he scored his only hundred in 1893 but was otherwise something of a failure. At the end of his career, he appeared in a single Sheffield Shield match for South Australia in 1895/96, opening the batting but making nought, then finally in 1897/98 in two more games for New South Wales. In his last match he made a half-century but did not bowl a single ball.Ferris' end was a tragic one: he enlisted in the British Army for the Second Boer War, but contracted typhoid and died at Durban, South Africa at the age of 33.

Test debut Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 28-31, 1887

Last Test South Africa v England at Cape Town, Mar 19-22, 1892

First-class span 1886-1898

John McIlwraith (1857-1938) Test Cap # 43

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Full name John McIlwraith
Born September 7, 1857, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Died July 5, 1938, Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 80 years 301 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat

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Born at Collingwood on 7 September 1857 (cricket records), 5 October 1857 (Scotch records) or 7 October 1857 (birth notice), he entered Scotch on 14 July 1873. When he left is unknown. He played one Test, on 12–14 August 1886 at The Oval. With fellow Old Scotch Collegian William Bruce, he scored two runs as a right-hander batting at six in a team total of just 68 in the first innings, and opened in the follow-on, scoring seven out of 149. In the same match the legendary W G Grace scored a then English record Test score of 170, with McIlwraith dropping a difficult chance at slip with Grace on 93.

Francis Henry Walters (1860-1922) Test Cap # 42

Full name Francis Henry Walters
Born February 9, 1860, East Melbourne, Victoria
Died June 1, 1922, at sea off Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India (aged 62 years 112 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

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Francis Henry (Frank) Walters (9 February 1860 – 1 June 1922) was an Australian cricketer.
Walters was born in East Melbourne. He played in 1 Test in 1885 and later died in Mumbai.

Only Test Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 21-25, 1885
First-class span 1880-1896

Patrick George McShane (1858-1903) Test Cap # 41

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Full name Patrick George McShane
Born April 18, 1858, Keilor, Victoria
Died December 11, 1903, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 45 years 237 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium

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Patrick George McShane (born 18 April 1858 at Keilor, Victoria; died 11 December 1903 at Kew, Victoria) was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Test matches between 1885 and 1888.George McShane was a more than capable batsman and exceedingly accurate left-arm bowler who played three Tests against England, one each in 1884-85, 1886-87 and 1887-88, without any success.

John Worrall (1860-1937) Test Cap # 40

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Full name John Worrall
Born June 20, 1861, Chinaman's Flat, Maryborough, Victoria
Died November 17, 1937, Fairfield Park, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 77 years 150 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm slow (roundarm)

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John Jack Worrall was an Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy in the VFA and a test cricketer, a coach of both sports and a sporting journalist.A small, nuggety man with broad shoulders, pink complexion and intense brown eyes, Worrall was one of Australia's great all-round sports people of the nineteenth century, and was involved in Australian football and cricket at the elite level for many decades. After his retirement, he coached both sports, and is considered the "father" of Australian football coaching. Worrall had an extended career as a sporting journalist, and he was a highly respected member of the press box right up until his death in 1937. He was no stranger to conflict, and his forthright manner embroiled him in a number of sporting controversies throughout his lifetime.

Born on the Victorian Goldfields at Chinaman's Flat (now in the locality of Snake Valley near Maryborough, Worrall was the seventh child of Irish-born parents, Joseph and Ann. He attended state school in Maryborough, but moved to Ballarat in his early twenties. There, he came under notice playing cricket against the touring English team, which led to his selection for Victoria in 1883. Joining the South Ballarat Football Club, Worrall showed excellent potential and he was persuaded to move to Melbourne and play for the fledging Fitzroy club in 1884. At this stage, Fitzroy had just secured admission to the game's elite competition, the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Worrall became a major factor in the emergence of Fitzroy as a powerful team. During summer, he turned out for the Fitzroy Cricket Club.

John William Trumble (1863-1944) Test Cap # 39

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Full name John William Trumble
Born September 16, 1863, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Died August 17, 1944, Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 80 years 336 days)
Major teams Australia, Gentlemen of England, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

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John William Trumble (16 September 1863 – 17 August 1944) was an Australian cricketer who played in 7 Tests between 1885 and 1886.He was the brother of Hugh Trumble.While never reaching the lofty standards of his brother he was a good off break bowler for Victoria and handy with the bat. He produced some useful performances in his seven Tests for Australia but nothing outstanding. He continued to be a good servant of Victorian cricket bowling some fine spells in domestic cricket.John studied law at the University of Melbourne and founded the firm of Trumble and Palmer at Nhill in country Victoria. The firm still exists. His cricket career was short as he chose to focus on his legal career.John married Susan Davies - they had 7 children.

William Roderick Robertson (1861-1938) Test Cap # 38

Full name William Roderick Robertson

Born October 6, 1861, Deniliquin, New South Wales

Died June 24, 1938, Brighton, Victoria (aged 76 years 261 days)

Major teams Australia, Victoria

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak

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William Roderick Robertson was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test from 1 January to 5 January 1885.A native of the New South Wales town of Deniliquin, near the Victoria border, Digger Robertson was a right-handed batsman with a leg break bowling style. He made his first-class debut for Victoria against the English touring team in November 1884, taking 3 for 36 and 5 for 46.After the Australian team for the First Test in December refused to play in the Second Test, Robertson was one of eight Test debutants selected. However, he took no wickets, Australia lost, and along with four of the other debutants, he played no further Test cricket.

Roland James Pope (1864-1952) Test Cap # 37

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Full name Roland James Pope
Born February 18, 1864, Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales
Died July 27, 1952, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales (aged 88 years 160 days)
Major teams Australia, Marylebone Cricket Club, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm slow (underarm)
Fielding position Occasional wicketkeeper

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Roland James "Rowley" Pope was an Australian cricketer best known for representing the Australian national cricket team in one Test match in 1885, and later also known as an ophthalmologist and philanthropist. From Sydney, New South Wales, he was selected for the Test as the result of a player strike during the English tour of Australia during the 1884–85 season, and made three runs across his two innings. Having studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Pope was head of the ophthalmology section of Sydney Hospital for a period of 17 years, and was later involved in the establishment of the library and art gallery of the City of Newcastle.

Pope was born in Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, on 18 February 1864, and educated at The Hutchins School in Hobart, Tasmania.His first recorded cricket matches were played for Sydney University's cricket team against Melbourne University in 1879 and 1881, though it is unknown if he actually attended the school.Partly as a result of scoring 170 not out for a Melbourne I Zingari team against the Richmond Cricket Club, Pope was selected to make his first-class debut for New South Wales against Victoria in late December 1884 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and made what was to be his highest first-class score, 47 runs, in New South Wales' first innings.The English cricket team was touring the Australian colonies at the time, and the second Test match of the series was scheduled to be held in Melbourne beginning on 1 January 1885, two days after the conclusion of the New South Wales–Victoria game. A number of leading New South Wales players, including Jack Blackham, Harry Boyle, George Bonnor, and Percy McDonnell objected to the payment arrangements for the tour, and boycotted the first and second Tests in protest at what they perceived at unfair treatment. The Victorian Cricket Association was forced to choose a team comprising nine debutants (including Pope) for the Test, with Tom Horan as captain.In the match, Pope batted at number six in both innings, making a duck in the first innings and three runs in the second innings of what was to be his only Test.

Henry Alfred Musgrove (1858-1931) Test Cap # 36

Full name Henry Alfred Musgrove
Born November 27, 1858, Surbiton, Surrey, England
Died November 2, 1931, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales (aged 72 years 340 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat

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Henry Alfred Musgrove was an Australian theatrical manager and cricketer who played in one Test in 1885.Harry Musgrove was born in England, and his family moved to Australia when he was a small boy.He grew up in Geelong. His father was an accountant, but his mother came from a theatrical background.He and his brothers established a theatrical management firm in Melbourne. They amalgamated with the J. C. Williamson company after a cricket match between the two companies in the 1880s.

Musgrove played with the East Melbourne Cricket Club from 1879 to 1892, scoring 2899 runs at an average of 28, including several centuries.He was an elegant batsman. The journalist and former Test cricketer Tom Horan described one of his innings as "an admirable, fantastic, faultless exhibition of batting. Looking at Musgrove hitting a fiver, it seems the simplest thing in the world to go and do likewise, his manner of making the stroke is so easy, so devoid of anything like exercise of strength."

His theatrical work prevented his playing much first-class cricket.He played a match for Victoria in 1881–82; then, when he was in Ballarat on theatrical business in December 1884, he was selected to play for the local team against the touring English team. He scored 109, and when a few days later most of the Australian Test players withdrew from the Second Test in a dispute with the authorities over pay, he was selected as one of the replacements. He was not successful.He was one of the five Australians for whom this match would be their only Test.

Harry Musgrove, centre of back row, manager of the 1896 Australian cricket team He was the successful manager of the Australian team in England in 1896, "where his tact and courtesy contributed significantly to a harmonious tour".He also managed the Australian baseball team that toured America in 1897.Musgrove managed the major Melbourne theatres the Theatre Royal and the Princess Theatre. He managed the Australian and New Zealand tours of Nellie Stewart.

Musgrove wrote a series of memoirs for the Melbourne weekly Table Talk that appeared between 12 August 1926 and 25 November 1926 with the title "Stage Secrets". While mostly concerned with his theatrical career, they also covered his cricketing days as player and manager. Musgrove died at his home in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst in November 1931. His wife predeceased him, but he was survived by two sons and a daughter.

Only Test Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 1-5, 1885

First-class span 1881-1888

Samuel Morris (1855-1931) Test Cap # 35

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Full name Samuel Morris
Born June 22, 1855, Hobart, Tasmania
Died September 20, 1931, Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 76 years 90 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

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Sam Morris was the first black Test cricketer and the only one to play for Australia. He was born in Tasmania, according to some reports the son of West Indian parents attracted by the gold-rush, became recognised as a wicket-keeper there and moved into first-class cricket as a batsman and medium-paced bowler after becoming appointed curator at the St Kilda ground in Melbourne. He played his only Test, at Melbourne in 1884-85, after the entire team from the previous Test had pulled out after a row about their share of the gate money. The team was predictably beaten buf Morris dismissed two of England's top three and opened the batting in the first innings, when he was out for four. He remained a regular player for Victoria for the next eight years. He was curator at South Melbourne for 30 years from 1887, giving up only when he lost his sight.

Only Test Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 1-5, 1885

First-class span 1881-1893

Alfred Percy Marr (1862-1940) Test Cap # 34

Full name Alfred Percy Marr
Born March 28, 1862, Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales
Died March 15, 1940, Arncliffe, New South Wales (aged 77 years 353 days)
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

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Alfred Marr, who died at Sydney in March, aged 77, played for the Combined XI of Australia in one of four such matches against Arthur Shrewsbury's side in 1885. A useful batsman and bowler for New South Wales, he was chosen three times to come to England, but was never able to accept the invitation. So well did he maintain his ability that when 67 years of age, in grade competition match at Sydney, he scored 101.

Only Test Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 1-5, 1885

First-class span 1882-1891

Arthur Harwood Jarvis (1860-1933) Test Cap # 33

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Full name Arthur Harwood Jarvis
Born October 19, 1860, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, South Australia
Died November 15, 1933, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, South Australia (aged 73 years 27 days)
Major teams Australia, South Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

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Arthur Harwood ("Affie") Jarvis (19 October 1860 in Hindmarsh, South Australia – 15 November 1933 in Hindmarsh, South Australia) was an Australian wicket-keeper who played for Australia and South Australia.His Test cricket debut was against England at the MCG on 15 January 1885 and his last Test was also against England at the same ground on 1 March 1895.

Jarvis is most unlucky that his time clashed with Jack Blackham The Prince of Wicketkeepers, who held down the spot in the Australian Test Team that Jarvis would probably otherwise have had.Nonetheless Jarvis had a fantastic career as the wicketkeeper for South Australia, and despite the presence of Blackham still played 11 Tests for Australia and toured England.

Test debut Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 1-5, 1885
Last Test Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 1-6, 1895
First-class span 1877-1901

William Bruce (1864-1925) Test Cap # 32

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Full name William Bruce
Born May 22, 1864, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria
Died August 3, 1925, Elwood, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 61 years 73 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium

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William Bruce (24 May 1864 in South Yarra, Victoria – 3 August 1925 in Elwood, Victoria) was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests between 1885 and 1895.

He made his debut in the second match of 1884/85 series when 10 of the Australian players went on strike. Bruce a gifted left-hander from Victoria had a very good Test average of 29 for his era and while never making a Test century he established himself a reputation as a batsman of note.

William Bruce was the first Australian southpaw to tour England. Whether opening or in the middle order, he was a real dasher, but his uncertain defence left him vulnerable. He played some fine innings, though, most notably a delightful 80 at Adelaide in 1894-95. He was also a useful medium-pacer, and seven of his 12 Test victims were out bowled. He later became a solicitor. Bruce was found drowned in his native Melbourne in 1925.

Test debut Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 1-5, 1885

Last Test Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 1-6, 1895

First-class span 1882-1904

Henry James Herbert Scott (1858-1910) Test Cap # 31

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Full name Henry James Herbert Scott
Born December 26, 1858, Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria
Died September 23, 1910, Scone, New South Wales (aged 51 years 271 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

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Henry James Herbert Scott was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. Scott, a doctor by training, later served as mayor and chief magistrate in the rural New South Wales town of Scone; he died here of typhoid in 1910.His first-class debut was at the age of nineteen in February 1878 for Victoria. However returning Australian players limited opportunities and his next match was not until March 1882. He made two centuries for his state, 14 in 1883/84 and 111 in 1885/86.Scott's brief international career ended after he captained the injury-ridden and unsuccessful Australian team that toured England in 1886 as he decided to remain in the country and complete his qualification as a doctor. He played eight Test matches between 1884 and 1886 with a highest score of 102 at The Oval in 1884.He was nicknamed "Tup" for his habit of using London buses for sightseeing tours which cost him tuppence.

Test debut England v Australia at Manchester, Jul 10-12, 1884
Last Test England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 12-14, 1886
First-class span 1877-1886

Samuel Percy Jones (1861-1951) Test Cap # 30

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Full name Samuel Percy Jones
Born August 1, 1861, Sydney, New South Wales
Died July 14, 1951, Auckland, New Zealand (aged 89 years 347 days)
Major teams Australia , New South Wales, Queensland,
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

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Samuel Percy Jones (1 August 1861 in Sydney – 14 July 1951 in Auckland) was an Australian cricketer who played twelve Tests between 1882 and 1888.A solid right-handed batsman and a handy medium pace bowler, Jones excelled for New South Wales and later for Queensland and Auckland. He toured England with the Australians in 1882, 1886, 1888 and 1890, and New Zealand with the Queensland team in 1896-97. On the 1886 tour he scored 1497 first-class runs at 24.95, and two centuries, including his career-best of 151 against the Gentlemen at The Oval. Testament to his batting skill, his first-class career lasted over 30 years.Despite some solid Test knocks for Australia, he is remembered more for a couple of legends of the early days of Test cricket than for anything he did on the field. He was involved, for example, in an incident with WG Grace in the 1882 Test Match, when he was run-out after having, under the assumption that the ball was dead, left his crease to pat down the pitch.

Jones's highest Test score was 87, achieved during the time that helped make this score a legend in Australian cricket superstition connected with bad luck.He moved to New Zealand in 1904,and played his last first-class match for Auckland in December 1908 at the age of 47.

Test debut Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 17-21, 1882
Last Test Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 10-15, 1888
First-class span 1880-1909

George Coulthard (1856-1883) Test Cap # 29

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Full name George Coulthard
Born August 1, 1856, Boroondara, Victoria
Died October 22, 1883, Carlton, Victoria (aged 27 years 82 days)
Major teams Australia, Victoria
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Umpire

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George Coulthard (1 August 1856 in Boroondara, Victoria – 22 October 1883 in Carlton, Victoria) was a star Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton. He was also a notable cricketer who played for the Melbourne Cricket Club and briefly for Australia. As a cricketer he played only six first-class matches, five for Victoria and a Test match for Australia. Coulthard played in the first match between Victoria and South Australia, taking 3 wickets for 29. He was also a prominent umpire of the time, standing in two Tests.Off the field, Coulthard was a shopkeeper. He died at Lygon Street in 1883, at the age of 27 years, oftuberculosis after an illness of 16 months. He was married with a baby daughter.

Henry Moses (1858-1938) Test Cap # 28

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Full name Henry Moses
Born February 13, 1858, Windsor, New South Wales
Died December 7, 1938, Strathfield, New South Wales (aged 80 years 297 days)
Major teams Australia (Test: 1886/87-1894/95); New South Wales (Main FC: 1881/82-1894/95); Combined XI (Australia) (Other FC: 1883/84-1887/88); Australia (Other FC: 1886/87-1894/95); Australian XI (Other FC: 1887/88); Rest of Australia (Other FC: 1888/89)
Batting style Left-hand bat
Other Administrator

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Harry Moses was a defensive left-hand batsman with enormous reserves of patience who would have played more than six times for Australia had business commitments not prevented him from taking part on any tours to England. Although some critics rated him alongside Billy Murdoch in ability, he never reproduced his sparkling domestic form for Australia. In 1887-88 he made 297 for NSW against Victoria and in the same season scored 58 and 109 against the English tourists. After retiring he was a trustee of the SCG for many years.

Test debut Australia v England at Sydney, Jan 28-31, 1887

Last Test Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 1-4, 1895

First-class span 1881-1895