Hugh Trumble
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Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 59) | 21 July 1890 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 8 March 1904 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1887–1904 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 9 February 2008 |
Hugh Trumble (19 May 1867 – 14 August 1938)
A tall and thin off spinner, Trumble delivered the ball at a quicker pace than most spin bowlers, using his height and uncommonly long fingers to his greatest advantage. He was at his best on the softer pitches of England, but his accuracy and variations in pace enabled him to take wickets on the harder pitches of Australia as well. He was a dependable lower order batsman and a fine fielder in the slips. He was recognised as a shrewd thinker about the game and was popular with team-mates and opponents, with a penchant for practical jokes.
Trumble made his Test debut during the
Off the field, Trumble worked for the National Bank of Australasia, rising to the position of manager of a local branch despite his cricket commitments interrupting his banking career. In 1911, he was appointed secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club, overseeing the development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) into a stadium capable of holding over 70,000 spectators. He held this post until his death in 1938 from a heart attack, aged 71.
Early life and career
Trumble was born in the inner
Trumble spent part of his early life in the western Victorian town of
Trumble transferred to the
Test cricket
Early struggle
Early in the 1889–90 Australian season, Trumble endured a period where he was not able to take wickets consistently. With selection of the Australian team to tour England in 1890 due at this time, Trumble was anxious about this poor run of form. Noting his anxiety while playing, a friend offered him a beer during the
The 1890 Australian team touring England was relatively inexperienced.
Trumble was not selected for the Australian team to play
When
Established cricketer
Trumble was selected in the Australian team to tour England in 1896, despite a poor domestic season in 1895–96 that saw his place in the touring squad seriously questioned by pundits.[26] The leading cricket journalist, Tom Horan said that as much as he personally liked Trumble, he could not see him as a member of a team for the England tour that season.[27] It was, however, during this tour that Trumble finally established a permanent place in the Australian line up. Wisden said of Trumble when listing him as one of its Cricketers of the Year, "...it was not until his third visit, during the past season, that Trumble convinced Englishmen he was entitled to rank among the great bowlers of Australia".[26] In that season, Trumble took 148 wickets at an average of 15.81.[28] He was seen as Australia's leading bowler who "was able to inspire [the English] batsmen with a feeling of apprehension".[27] Wisden's summary of the 1896 Australian tour said of Trumble, "His great strength lay in the combination of spin with extreme accuracy" and "he was on all wickets distinctly the best bowler on the [Australian] side".[27]
England won the First Test at
Trumble played in every Test of the
The 1899 Australian tour saw Trumble score 1,183 runs and take 142 wickets; he was only the second Australian, after George Giffen, to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in an English season as part of a touring team.[9] In the Test series, Trumble took 15 wickets at an average of 25.00 and made 232 runs at an average of 38.66.[42][43] Wisden said of Trumble's batting that season, "[Trumble] played so consistently well as to make it clear that if he had not been a bowler he would have been a great batsman".[44] Dry pitches saw his bowling average fall off a little from the 1896 tour but Wisden stated that he "bowled quite as well as in 1896" and "[he] never seemed easy to hit, and whenever the ground gave him least advantage ... he was deadly".[44] Australia won the Second Test by 10 wickets and with the other Tests finishing in draws, they retained the Ashes in a one Test to nil series victory.[44] Trumble played particularly well in the Third Test at Headingley, where he took 5 wickets for 60 runs and was the highest run-scorer in the Australian second innings with 56.[45]
Hat-tricks and captaincy
At the age of 34, Trumble was chosen to
Trumble's last cricketing
After playing in one Test match against the
Style and personality
Always the same, whether on the winning or the losing side, Hugh Trumble is ... one of the most popular of Australian cricketers.
— Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, [26]
Trumble was tall and thin, 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) in height. His long face featured prominent ears and a large nose, while his long arms and uncommonly long and strong fingers assisted his bowling.[60] The cricket writer Ray Robinson said of Trumble: "El Greco, with his lengthening touch would have liked to draw Trumble. Hugh's lantern shaped head set on a column of a neck would have given the Spaniard a halfway start."[9] English cricketer and author Plum Warner called him "That great camel, Hughie Trumble."[60]
When bowling, Trumble made the most of his height, bringing the ball over the full extent of his right arm.
Trumble was known for his cleverness on the field. C. B. Fry said of him, "He is the most long-headed, observant and acute judge of the game, a perfect master of the whole art of placing fieldsmen and changing bowlers."[60] On one occasion when captaining his state side, Victoria, he deliberately bowled two wides that his fieldsmen allowed to roll to the boundary to score four runs for his opponents. This was done to save his tired bowlers from having to bowl again immediately, as his opponents would have been required to follow-on (bat twice in a row), at the time compulsory. When questioned by an onlooker about the dubious sportsmanship of the action, he replied, "I had to do it, old chap, but I wonder what my father will think of it?"[9] Trumble was respected by his teammates and opponents; New Zealand cricketer, Dan Reese, who played against and alongside Trumble said, "His subtle humour, his fund of cricket stories, his kindness, and, above all, his judgment, made him a man of exceptional character."[6]
He was popular with team-mates and opponents alike, with a weakness for practical jokes.[9] On board a ship travelling to England, Trumble offered to coach unsuspecting fellow travellers in various deck sports such as quoits. Accepting Trumble's advice, they were made to contort themselves into a number of ludicrous positions to the amusement of his team-mates and other onlookers in the know. To prolong the joke, in his own games Trumble would adopt the same peculiar stance and method he advocated.[9]
Legacy and statistical analysis
"The first of the great off spinners of the Test-match age",
Trumble was particularly effective in England. After taking 52 wickets on his first tour of England in 1890, his other four visits to England—in 1893, 1896, 1899 and 1902—saw him take over 100 wickets in first-class matches.[67] In 1899, he scored 1,183 runs making him one of only four Australians, with George Giffen, Warwick Armstrong (both three times) and Jack Gregory, to take over 100 wickets and make over 1,000 runs on a tour of England.[67]
The
Trumble was the first player to take two
Off the playing field
Trumble joined the National Bank of Australasia in 1887 to begin a career in banking.[1] While the bank often allowed him time to practice, his frequent absences with cricket meant his career progression was slow; after each of his five tours of England he returned to find junior bank officers promoted over him.[9] Nevertheless, he was appointed accountant at the Richmond branch in 1903 and after his retirement from cricket in 1908, manager of the Kew branch.[1]
A loyal clubman, Trumble served on the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) from 1900–01 to 1910–11 and was made a life member in 1904.[67] In 1911 he resigned from the bank to become MCC club secretary; a position he held for 27 years until his death. In this role, he played a leading part in reconciling the club and the Victorian Cricket Association after a period of some friction between the two bodies.[70] He was instrumental in attracting quality cricketers to the club including Bert Ironmonger, whom Trumble saw play on a visit to Queensland.[60] During his term as secretary, the Melbourne Cricket Ground was expanded to a capacity of over 70,000 spectators.[5]
Trumble was a prominent writer about and elder statesman of the game and was conspicuous in his support for journalists calling at any hour.
In 1899, aged 31, Trumble met and fell in love with Florence Christian, aged 19 from Queensland. The couple were married in 1902, with the wedding timed to allow a honeymoon trip accompanying the Australian cricket tour of England.[9] An injury to his thumb freed Trumble from cricket commitments for a while, to his new wife's delight.[5] Together, the couple had eight children; six sons and two daughters.[1] One son, Robert, a renowned musician and writer, dedicated his first book, The Golden Age of Cricket, to his father.[74] Trumble died aged 71, from a heart attack in his home in the Melbourne eastern suburb of Hawthorn.[1][60]
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