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contributed a quick-fire 53 out of the last 74 runs when the match had already effectively been lost. Two weeks later, in the third match, he took just one wicket in a crushing
Australian victory, but contributed 58 out of 75 in just 68 minutes from the unusually lofty batting position of No 8. The fourth and fifth Tests brought him few runs or wickets. In the series as a whole, Ring scored 184 runs at an average of 23 runs per innings and took 13 wickets at the high average of 48.
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reach the boundary by clearing the fielders. Wisden reported: "Johnston played a comparatively passive role while Ring hit vigorously, gaining a series of boundaries by lofty drives which may have resulted in catches had the field been set deep enough for this known hitter." Ring made an unbeaten 32, and "earned most of the credit", Wisden said, though
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bowling performance, in South Africa's first innings. The South
Africans "survived Australia's pace bowling well enough, but few met the leg-breaks of Ring with assurance," Wisden reported. "His varied flight and pace worried batsmen attempting too often to play him from the crease." He was unsuccessful in South Africa's second innings.
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departed with no further runs added, and
Langley was out at 222, so when last batsman Bill Johnston joined Ring, 38 were still needed to win. In Wisden's words, "no one regards Johnston as other than a 'rabbit' with the bat". But the West Indies pushed the fielders in nearer the bat, allowing Ring to
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Australia. In the second innings, Wisden reported, West Indies' batsmen were "guilty of rash strokes against the high-flighted leg-breaks of Ring, whose bowling contained abundant guile". Ring was also at the wicket when the match
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In the 1939–40 season, Ring played in all of
Victoria's Sheffield Shield matches, and though he did not improve on either his best bowling or best batting figures, he took over as the side's principal spin bowler from Fleetwood-Smith, with 28 wickets in the six matches against the senior player's 17.
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and the touring side, he took seven for 88 in the home side's first innings, which remained the best figures of his first-class career. By the 1950–51 season, when Ring had one of his worst batting but better bowling seasons for
Victoria, he had been overtaken in the Test match pecking order by his
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England in 1953, this time under the captaincy of Hassett. It proved not much happier than his 1948 experience, though in a less strong side his eventual wicket tally, 68 first-class wickets at an average of
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Melbourne that cemented Ring's place as part of Australian cricket folklore. Again, his bowling was little used, and he failed to take a wicket. But his batting this time proved decisive. Chasing 260 to win, Australia had reached 218 for seven when Ring came in at No 9.
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Across the rest of the five-match Test series against South Africa, Ring took only seven more wickets, and he tended to be expensive in terms of the number of runs conceded from his bowling. In the second match, which the South
Africans won, he took three wickets for 187, and, batting at No 10,
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were the visitors to Australia, and Ring got an early sight of the team by captaining Victoria against them, top-scoring in the state's first innings with 56. In the first Test at Brisbane, he repeated his performance of a year earlier by taking six wickets, this time for 72 runs, his best Test
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alongside Ring, was an anticlimax, and Ring contributed little with either bat or ball to a large Australian victory. In the series as a whole, among the regular players, Ring finished behind only Hassett and Miller as a batsman, with 197 runs at an average of 28.14, and he took 13 wickets for
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Ring was a large man, 6 feet (183 cm) tall, and with his large hands he was able to impart plenty of spin on the ball, although he was not usually eager to loft the ball into the air, especially in English conditions. As a batsman, he was good enough to be considered a genuine
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when Noblet was out. Ring lasted into the second day when conditions were easier, and top-scored for the Australian team with 67, which remained his best score in Tests. He took three of the four wickets that fell as West Indies successfully chased a target of 233 on Christmas Day.
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in the opposition, Ring was the least experienced main line bowler at this level on either side – but he proved to be the matchwinner. Having taken two wickets in West Indies' first innings, he took six for 80 runs in the second, and his dismissal of
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of the regular bowlers. The strength of the batting side also meant that he batted only 14 times in his 19 first-class matches on the tour, and he passed 50 only once. He played in one Test match—the last of the five-match series, at
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Ring (right) and Bill Johnston (left) leave the field after their unbroken last wicket stand guided Australia to victory over the West Indies in the Fourth Test at the MCG in 1951–52.
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in November 1951 in what was billed as a "cricket championship of the world", the Australian Test selectors turned to Ring for the spin option to the pace of Lindwall, Miller and
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in 1953. Following cricket, Ring held positions in industry administration in Victoria, and became a cricket radio commentator and later host of Australia's
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2189:"Statsguru — DT Ring — Test matches — Batting analysis"
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41:Personal information
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1762:. pp. 821–822.
1529:"Australia v India"
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814:bumper
810:Sydney
625:length
571:Wisden
495:Hobart
432:in 13
314:27,956
308:bowled
130:googly
105:Height
70:Hobart
2530:Tests
1200:6/72
1191:1305
1168:6/80
1126:6/72
1084:3/17
1056:India
1042:2/84
991:Runs
979:Runs
938:Style
928:HSV-7
693:India
461:India
340:28.48
337:37.28
311:3,024
306:Balls
278:23.25
275:22.42
265:3,418
200:Years
174:India
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1252:2007
1188:0/4
1179:426
1159:390
1156:0/2
1147:197
1117:624
1114:0/2
1105:184
1075:120
1072:0/0
1033:171
1030:0/0
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710:and
621:disc
543:No 9
450:runs
389:93/–
375:7/88
372:6/72
289:1/20
237:Test
203:Team
136:Role
128:and
82:Died
56:Born
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2549:4th
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1185:67
1176:13
1162:13
1153:67
1120:13
1111:58
1069:11
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1021:34
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286:0/4
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