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.

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.