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After making 872 runs at 51.29 with four centuries in 1937–38, Badcock toured England in 1938. He had considerable success in the first-class matches, scoring 1,604 runs at an average of 45.82 with four centuries and finishing as the third most successful batsman of the Australian team on the tour.
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described Badcock as "a lovable and completely unspoiled personality – a great cricketer whose failures in the Tests in England in 1938 detract somewhat from an otherwise splendid record". The Tasmanian cricket historian Roger Page described him as "short, thick-set, and possessing forearms that
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at the start of the 1936–37 season, and played in the First and Second Tests against England. However, he scored only 8 runs, Australia lost both matches, and he lost his place in the Test team. He returned to form with 136 and 27 not out against
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he scored 25, 107, 274, 71 not out, 104 and 40, and in two matches against the Australians before their tour of England he scored 105, 24, 47 and 6. In all cricket that season he made 1970 runs at an average of 98.50. On the advice of
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However, in the four Tests he failed to reach double figures in any innings: an oddity of his Test career is that, having scored the one century in 1936–37, he was never, in 11 further Test innings, out in double figures.
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He continued to score prolifically in Australia, including 271 not out for South Australia against New South Wales in 1938–39, and 236 against Queensland in 1939–40.
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in first-class cricket, making his debut in 1929–30 at the age of 15. Opening the batting, he top-scored in each innings for Tasmania against
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What a racket! : the illustrated story of the Alexander Patent Racket Co. Ltd., Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 1925–1961
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The Tasmanian team that played the South Africans at Hobart in January 1932. Jack Badcock is seated at left.
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In 1933–34 he played five first-class matches and scored 803 runs at 89.22. In three matches against
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and won back his Test place. The series was level two-all, and Australia needed to win to retain
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led to his retirement from cricket in 1941 and he returned to the family farm at Exton.
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he moved to Adelaide in June 1934, taking a job as a furniture salesman.
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This biographical article related to Australian cricket is a
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From 1934 to 1939, Badcock had an endorsement deal with the
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He scored 167 for a Western Australia Combined XI against
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at Launceston in 1932–33, making 57 and 43 not out.
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Jack Badcock (naturalist)

Exton, Tasmania
Australia
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England
England
Tasmania
South Australia
Tests
First-class
Batting average
Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings

cricketer
Tests

Exton
Tasmania
Deloraine
Tasmania
the MCC
Victoria
Clarrie Grimmett
South Australia
the MCC

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