Clem Hill
Clement Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five. In 1902, Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. Hill was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005. He died in 1945 aged 68 when thrown from a tram in Melbourne in a traffic accident.
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Clement Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five. In 1902, Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. His innings of 365 scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01 was a Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. Hill was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005. He died in 1945 aged 68 when thrown from a tram in Melbourne in a traffic accident. He was one of the ‘Big Six’ who boycotted the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England when the players were stripped of the right to appoint the tour manager. Hill had a strained relationship with Australian cricket authorities. He turned down an invitation to tour England in 1909 due to his unhappiness with the contract terms offered. His Test cricket career ended in controversy after he was involved in a brawl with cricket administrator and fellow Test selector Peter McAlister in 1912. The South Australian Cricket Association named a grandstand at the Adelaide Oval in his honour in 2003 and he was honoured with a knighthood in 2004. He played his first first-class cricket match for South Australian while still a schoolboy, aged 16. Hill normally batted at No. 3 and, along with his contemporary Victor Trumper, he was a mainstay of the Australian batting line-up in the early years of the 20th century. He still holds the Australian Test record partnership for the eighth wicket—243, made against England in 1907–08.
His father scored a century for North Adelaide against the touring Kent County Cricket Club, reportedly the first century scored at Adelaide Oval. Clem’s father was prominent in the Methodist Church and sent Clem to be educated at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. At 16, he scored 360 in the inter-collegiate match against St Peter’s College, fiercely contested at the age of 13, keeping wicket and batting at number ten. Despite this, a sportsmaster threatened to leave him out of the school XI if he continued to play the first-leg shot to the fast bowling of future team-mate, Ernie Jones, leading to a decision to concentrate on batting to a leading wicket-taker. In 1903–04 he was at the centre of a riot at the Sydney Cricket Ground when he was adjudged run out in a Test match against England. In the 1901–02 season, Hill was dismissed in consecutive innings for 99, 98 and 97. In total he was dismissed between 90 and 99 five times in Test cricket. He had a strong throwing arm and was an excellent outfielder, and was especially strong on the leg side and when cutting. His batting style was nonetheless attractive and effective and he played with a strong bottom hand. Hill’s last Test match was against South Africa in 1910–11 for the series against South South Africa. In 1912–13 there were several instances of three Hill brothers in the same representative team.
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