John Hodges

John Hodges

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = Australian
country = Australia
country abbrev = AUS
name = John Hodges
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Left-hand bat
bowling style = Left-arm medium round arm
tests = 2
test runs = 10
test bat avg = 3.33
test 100s/50s = 0 / 0
test top score = 8
test balls = 136
test wickets = 6
test bowl avg = 14.00
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = 2 - 7
test catches/stumpings = 0 / 0
FCs = 4
FC runs = 75
FC bat avg = 12.50
FC 100s/50s = 0 / 0
FC top score = 22
FC balls = 457
FC wickets = 12
FC bowl avg = 16.50
FC 5s = 0
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 3 - 11
FC catches/stumpings = 1 / 0
debut date = 15 March
debut year = 1877
last date = 31 March
last year = 1877
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5670.html

John Robart Hodges, an Australian cricketer, was born in Knightsbridge, London on August 11, 1855 and is believed to have died on January 17, 1933 in Melbourne, Victoria in his adopted country. The exact details of his death remain unconfirmed but this date is generally accepted by the sport's historians. He is one of the least known Australian players, so meteoric and short was his career. He had the unusual distinction of playing in a Test match (and not just any Test match, the first ever given such status) before playing for his state. Therefore, the historic international, played at Melbourne in 1877 between Australia and England, was Hodges' first-class debut.

A left-handed batsman and fast-medium, round-arm bowler, Hodges started playing cricket for the famous Capulets club in the Collingwood district of Victoria. Following some good performances in club cricket, he soon appeared for the Richmond Cricket Club (1876/77), and later played for Victoria.

His bowling had both pace and movement and occasionally he could swing the ball sharply. But it also lacked consistency and all the good work he showed previously rarely came to the fore in his two representative matches. He bowled too short and was hit about the ground by some of the English batsmen. Hodges got his chance to play in the inaugural Test when the more widely recognised bowler, Frank Allen, refused to travel to Melbourne from Warrnambool for the match. Allen could not spare the time and thus Hodges bowled the very first ball for Australia in Test history and was unlucky not to take a wicket with it. Newspaper reports suggested that an umpiring error saved the English batsman, Henry Jupp, after he dislodged the bails whilst attempting to play the ball. Umpire Ben Terry, standing at square leg, did not see the incident and therefore Jupp survived.

Hodges took three wickets in his first Test, including John Selby twice, and did enough to earn selection for the second Test two weeks later. He claimed another three wickets in the second Test and this time it was Andrew Greenwood that fell to him in both innings. In both matches he scored just ten runs (with two ducks and a highest score of 8) and his play in the field was considered casual bordering on slipshod.

Nine months after his representative matches, in December 1877, Hodges made his debut for Victoria and played a second and last time for the state in February the following year. From then on his form deserted him and he was soon out of first-class cricket and back playing for the Capulet team.

A bootmaker by trade, Hodges appeared before a Richmond court in February 1884, charged with indecent exposure. The charges were dismissed and from thereon he faded into relative obscurity. One of the last references to Hodges came in January 1911 when Tom Horan, a former teammate in that inaugural Test side, reported that he believed Hodges had moved to South Africa. But further details about his life are sparse. Despite his early cricketing ability Hodges spent most of his life living in poverty.

References

# "The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket" published by Oxford University Press (1996)
# "Australian Cricket - The Game and the Players" published by Hodder & Stoughton (1982)
# "ABC Guide to Australian Test Cricketers" published by Queen Anne Press (1994)
# [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players Cricket Archive ] at www.cricketarchive.com


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