Clem Hill's Reminiscences

efficient teamwork. Later MacLaren turned to me and said, ‘I know your game now. When a bowler is troubling you Trumper knocks him off, and when he is in difficulties you have a go.’ I was caught. I don’t think I ever hit a ball so hard. It went skimming between the bowler and mid-on, and looked like clearing the fence in front of the pavilion. Fry took a brilliant catch. When I returned to the dressing room I threw down my bat, so I have been told, and declared that I would never lift another ball. But I did not keep my word. We trounced the Englishmen thoroughly in this game, winning by ten wickets. It was the most complete triumph the Australians had had in England since 1878. England went in to bat on a perfect wicket. With an array of batsmen such as MacLaren, Ranjitsinhji, Jackson, Hayward, J.T.Tyldesley, Fry, Jessop and Lilley, the home side had visions of victory. But Jones bowled as he had never bowled before. His Second English Tour 49 Hill packing his kit in the team’s London hotel in 1899