Double Headers

94 in a double-header match in February 1936: now playing for South Australia, he made a score of 325 against Victoria at Adelaide. •Other batting notes: Reg Hawson was left 199* in Tasmania’s second innings against Victoria in January 1913 … in the simultaneous match at Sydney, Victor Trumper (138) and Eric Barbour (146) added 270 for NSW’s eighth wicket – still the Australian record partnership for this wicket … Roy Lonergan scored 115 and 100 for South Australia v Victoria in December 1933 ... Percy Beames made scores of 226* and 169* for Victoria in their two matches against Tasmania over Christmas and New Year 1938/39. •NSW bowlers took a hat-trick in each of their simultaneous games in December 1902: on Boxing Day, Warwick Armstrong performed the feat in Victoria’s first innings at Melbourne, while on 29 December Thomas Howard repeated it to end Queensland’s second innings in the match at Sydney (he actually took the last four Queensland wickets in five balls). •Other bits and pieces: The NSW v Victoria match in January 1895 was the first Sheffield Shield match, and only the second first-class match anywhere, to extend into a sixth day of play … Tasmania’s win over Victoria in the simultaneous game at Hobart was their first first- class victory since 1853/54 … when NSW beat Queensland by 2 runs in December 1903, the junior state needed 293 to win in the fourth innings, but collapsed from 274-5 and 287-6 to be all out for 290. Once Queensland entered the Sheffield Shield in 1926/27, there could be no question of the other states continuing to arrange fixtures with them which coincided with matches against their other Shield rivals. Hence there have been no more double-headers involving Queensland as a junior state from that season on: they were no longer a junior state when they made their last-ever appearance in a double-header, in January 1957. Tasmania’s position was a little different. Having played Victoria 75 times between Australia: First home of the geographical double-header Two of first-class cricket’s nine innings of 199* were played in double-header matches – by Frank Druce (left) in 1895, and by Reg Hawson in 1912/13. For Hawson, this remained the highest score of his career.