Jeff Hallebone

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Jeff Hallebone
Personal information
Full name
Jeffrey Hallebone
Born(1929-08-03)3 August 1929
Batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1952–1955Victoria
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 18
Runs scored 1,192
Batting average 40.10
100s/50s 3/6
Top score 202
Catches/stumpings 11/–
Source: CricketArchive, 22 October 2018

Jeffrey Hallebone (3 August 1929 – 18 October 2018)

double century on his first-class debut, which made him the third Australian to accomplish that feat, and as of 2015
the last to do so.

Biography

Hallebone was born in

South Melbourne Cricket Club in the Victorian grade cricket competition.[3] He finished the season having played in all 15 matches, although his 17 innings yielded only two half-centuries.[4] In his second season, however, he led South Melbourne's batting aggregates, with 459 runs from 13 matches.[5]

Against

double century on his first-class debut. He is the most recent Australian to have achieved the feat, which has only been performed seven more times since his innings.[12]

Despite their performances, both Hallebone and Maddocks were dropped from the team for Victoria's next Sheffield Shield match, against

the touring New Zealand team that was on its way back from a Test series in South Africa.[18]

During the 1954–55 Shield season, which was reduced to a single round-robin format, with only four matches per team, Hallebone scored only 44 runs from Victoria's first three games, and was dropped for the final match.[19] The next season, he played only twice, against Queensland and New South Wales, in what were the last matches of his first-class career.[9] In December 1955, he left Australia for eight months to gain business experience in England and the United States.[20] Hallebone, who was 26 at the time of his last state game, finished his career with a first-class batting average of 41.10, having scored 1,192 runs.[21] He continued playing grade cricket for South Melbourne until the 1965–66 season, retiring at the age of 36.[3]

Hallebone was married to Erica. He died on 18 October 2018 after a short illness.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Jeffrey Hallebone". The Age. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  2. ^ HALLEBONE, Jeffrey (1929-) – Heritage Guide to The Geelong College. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b Victoria Premier Cricket matches played by Jeff Hallebone – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  4. ^ Batting and fielding for South Melbourne, Victoria Cricket Association Premiership 1948/49 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  5. ^ Batting and fielding for South Melbourne, Victoria Cricket Association Premiership 1949/50 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  6. ^ South Melbourne v Northcote, Victoria Cricket Association Premiership 1951/52 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  7. The Mercury
    , 22 December 1951.
  8. Emerald Hill, Victoria
    ), 14 December 1951.
  9. ^ a b c First-class matches played by Jeffrey Hallebone – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  10. ^ Victoria v Tasmania, Other First-Class matches in Australia 1951/52 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  11. ^ Highest partnerships for each wicket for Victoria – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  12. ^ Records / First-class matches / Batting records / Double hundred on debut – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  13. ^ "RECORD BREAKERS OMITTED" – The Mercury, 12 February 1952.
  14. ^ Batting and fielding for Victoria, Sheffield Shield 1953/54 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  15. ^ Victoria v Queensland, Sheffield Shield 1953/54 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  16. ^ Queensland v Victoria, Sheffield Shield 1953/54 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  17. ^ "State hopes dashed by hurricane hitting" – The Courier-Mail, 27 January 1954.
  18. ^ Victoria v New Zealanders, New Zealand in Australia and South Africa 1953/54 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  19. ^ Batting and fielding for Victoria, Sheffield Shield 1954/55 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  20. ^ "Here's the chance for Alan Dick" – The Argus, 15 December 1955.
  21. ^ Jeff Hallebone – CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
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