Jimmy Matthews

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Jimmy Matthews Australia (AUS)

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
Test debut: 12 January 1912 Last Test: 19 August 1912 Source: [1]

Thomas James Matthews (April 3, 1884, Mount Gambier, South Australia - October 14, 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.