Lindsay Hassett Australia (AUS)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	43	216
Runs scored	3073	16890
Batting average	46.56	58.24
100s/50s	10/11	59/75
Top score	198*	232
Balls bowled	111	1316
Wickets	0	18
Bowling average	-	39.05
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	-	2/10
Catches/stumpings	30/0	170/0
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Arthur Lindsay Hassett (born August 28, 1913, Geelong, Victoria, died June 16, 1993, Batehaven, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 43 Tests from 1938 to 1953. is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Moorabool St, Geelongs main street, during Christmas. ... is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ... A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. ...

Early years

Hassett, the son of a real-estate agent, was educated at Geelong College. He made his debut for Victoria in the summer of 1932/33, scoring 4 and 9 at the MCG, but was unable to hold his place in the Victorian side until 1936/37. Hassett's 503 runs (average 71.85) in that summer, followed by 693 runs (average 53.3) the following season, was rewarded with selection in the 1938 Australian team to tour England under Don Bradman's captaincy. The tour began well for Hassett, scoring 148 against Leicestershire and an undefeated 220 against Cambridge University in the following match. Hassett's performances in the following four Tests (the Third Test at Old Trafford was washed out without a ball being bowled) were average, scoring only 199 runs at 24.88, highest score 56 at Lord's. The 1938 Ashes series ended in a tie, 1–1, after England's mammoth innings and 579 run victory over Australia at the Oval in the Fifth Test. The Geelong College is a co-educational day and boarding private school located in Geelong, Australia. ... The Victorian Bushrangers are an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... Joseph McG McGinty Nichol (born November 30, 1968) is an American film producer and director. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Sir Donald George Bradman (August 27, 1908 - February 25, 2001) was an Australian cricket player who is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, and one of Australias greatest popular heroes. ...

The 1938 Ashes tour would be Australia's last Test series before the outbreak of war. Hassett enlisted as a gunner in the Anti-Aircraft Regiment and was posted to Egypt and Palestine in 1941 before being transferred to Port Moresby in 1944. The following year, with the cessation of hostilities in Europe, Hassett was selected to lead an Australian Services XI on a tour of England - the "Victory Tests". In the six matches played, Hassett made 296 runs at 26.9. Hassett enjoyed greater success on the Services tour of India, hitting a century in Calcutta. Victory Tests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Hassett toured New Zealand in early 1946 under the captaincy of Bill Brown, playing in the one-off Test in Wellington. The match ended in two days as New Zealand were bowled out for 42 and 54. The following summer, England returned to Australia for the first Ashes contest after the war. Hassett opened his account with a century (128, his first century in Test cricket), sharing a 276-run partnership with captain Bradman. He ended the series with 332 runs at 47.43. William Alfred Brown (Born July 31, 1912 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian Test cricketer who also played for New South Wales and Queensland He was a member of Don Bradmans 1948 Invincibles team and is Australias oldest living Test cricketer. ... For the first Duke of Wellington, see Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. ...

India embarked on its first tour of Australia in the summer of 1947/48. The visitors lost 4–0, the rain-affected Second Test at Sydney ending in a draw. In the Fourth Test at Adelaide, Hassett hit his highest Test score - 198 not out - finishing the series with 332 runs (average 110.67).

Ten years after his first tour of England, Lindsay Hassett was included in the 1948 team under Bradman's captaincy. Considered one of the strongest Australia teams to tour England, the team became known as "the Invincibles". Australia won the series convincingly - 4–0 - Hassett finishing the series with 310 runs at 44.29, highest score 137 at Trent Bridge. The Fifth Test at the Oval marked the final appearance of captain Don Bradman. The Australian cricket team on board the R.M.S. Strathaird en-route to England in 1948. ...

Captaincy

English captain Freddie Brown (l) tosses with Hassett in 1950-51 in Melbourne.

Following Bradman's retirement in 1948, Hassett - as Bradman's vice-captain - was appointed to the top job. Despite being praised as tactically sound by Bradman himself, Hassett won the captaincy over the inexperienced Arthur Morris by only one vote. Hassett celebrated by leading Australia to a 4–0 victory over South Africa in the summer of 1949/50, the first Test-series of the post-Bradman era. Hassett performed strongly in the series, hitting two centuries (112 in Johannesburg and 167 in Port Elizabeth) finishing with 402 runs at 67. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... (For the science-fiction author, see Fredric Brown) Frederick (Freddie) Richard Brown (born in Lima, Peru on 16 December 1910, died in Ramsbury, Wiltshire on 24 July 1991) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Surrey, Northamptonshire and England. ... Arthur Robert Morris (born January 19, 1922 in Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches and was a member of Don Bradmans Iinvincibles of 1948. ...

England returned to Australia in 1950/51; the home side won 4–1. Hassett enjoyed strong starts in a number of Tests - 52 in the Second Test, 70 in the Third, 92 and 48 in the Fifth - but failed to bring up a century. Nevertheless, he was the second-highest run-scorer of the series, hitting 366 runs at 40.67. Only England's Len Hutton (533 runs at 88.83) was better. For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ...

Hassett returned to form in the following home series against the West Indies - 402 runs at 57.43, the leading run-scorer of the series. This was despite missing the Third Test in Adelaide (which Australia lost) through injury - the first time in his career Hassett was out injured. Australia won the series 4–1. The following year, South Africa embarked on its first tour of Australia since 1931/32. Hassett hit a century (163) in the Fourth Test at Adelaide, but it was Neil Harvey (834 runs at 92.67) that was the dominant player of the series. Hassett finished the 1952/53 series against the South Africans with 346 runs at 43.25. Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... Robert Neil Harvey MBE (born October 8, 1928 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who represented the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963. ...

Hassett's final tour was to England in 1953. In the first Test at Trent Bridge, he hit 115 - his highest Test score of the tour. The rain-affected Test ended in a draw - as did the next three. England won the final Test at the Oval to claim a 1–0 victory, thus winning the Ashes for the first time since the infamous "Bodyline" tour of 1932/33. Lindsay Hassett, aged 40, promptly announced his retirement from cricket. Bill Woodfull evades a Bodyline ball. ...

Career highlights

• First Test: First Test v. England at Trent Bridge (Nottingham), 10-14 June 1938
• Last Test: Fifth Test v. England at The Oval (London), 15-19 August 1953
• Highest score: 198 not out, Fourth Test v. India at Adelaide Oval (Adelaide), 23-28 January 1948
• Captaincy record: 24 Tests, 14 wins, 4 losses, 6 drawn; win ratio 58.33%

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Personal

After his retirement, Hassett operated a sports store in suburban Melbourne. He later joined the ABC as a radio commentator, retiring from that position in 1981.

Hassett was known for his sense of humour. According to author Roland Perry, "Hassett tended to be a clown, even an up-market larrikin, while never losing the respect of his players ... [he] never allowed anyone – particularly himself – to be depressed on the team's travels" (pp.178-9). Roland Perry is a Melbourne based author. ...

In 1942, Hassett married Tessie Davis, a Geelong accountant.

Lindsay Hassett's career performance graph.

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See also

• Cricinfo article on Lindsay Hassett

References

• Cricinfo profile, Lindsay Hassett. Accessed 05-01-2007.
• Harte, Chris 2003, The Penguin History of Australian Cricket. Penguin. Melbourne. ISBN 0-670-04133-5.
• Perry, Roland 2000, Captain Australia. Random House. Sydney. ISBN 1-74051-174-3.